Know Thyself, who are YOUR four portraits?
In the 1985 movie Back to the Future, Doc (Dr. Emmett Brown), has four portraits on the mantle in his home of: Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. Standing before Edison, Doc pleads:
‘Tom, how am I going to generate that kind of power?! It can’t be done, it can’t!’
There is a theory that Doc has been thinking about time travel for quite a while, even before 1955. Doc also knows that interference in the past would change the future, altering any photographs of the interfered individuals. The on-line position is that these portraits represent the individuals he would most want to meet if he were to ever concur time travel. Their prime position on the mantel will be proof of whether he manages in the future to go back in time, if the experience changed them.
My four portraits of people I would just want to be around, assuming language is to be no barrier….. I could get it down to eight, but my list includes the ladies….so…Leonardo Da Vinci, Hypatia of Alexandria, Charles Dickens, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Joan of Arc, Benjamin Franklin, Cleopatra, and Dean Cassidy
Who are YOUR four/eight?
Last Updated on 02/09/2026 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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