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It does not store any personal data. Functional Functional. He suspects that it is a direct result of his actions. Returning to the portal, he finds that the Yellow Card Man has been replaced by a respectable looking man with a Green Card. He reveals himself to be a sort of time "guardian" who explains that many other time portals exist in the universe. The time portals, the guardian explains, are temporary "bubbles" in time, which will disappear as the physical environment they reside in changes.
The man explains that traveling through the portal does not erase the past, it creates a new string until the portal is destroyed. The larger the change, the more unstable reality becomes - even minor changes will eventually overwhelm reality. Guarding the portal is difficult since he has to keep the myriad realities in his mind at all times. Eventually this drives the guardian to mental illness and sometimes alcoholism, like the Yellow Card Man.
He begs Jake to set things right again, otherwise reality itself could possibly be destroyed. Jake steps back through the portal, eager to see what the world has become like.
He discovers that Lisbon Falls and the world is now a lawless dystopia. He meets a familiar looking man, who turns out to be Harry Dunning, whose life he saved long ago. Not a brain-damaged janitor in this incarnation, he is a wheelchair-bound survivor of this time string.
Harry tells Jake a concise history of the world between and , involving nuclear weapons, environmental collapse from fallout and the greenhouse effect, energy shortages, domestic terrorism, general lawlessness and continued unexplained earthquakes, all of which are slowly destroying the planet.
Jake quickly returns to , and finds the Green Card Man much worse for wear. He tells Jake he must now go back to , and see that the portal is closed. Instead, Jake goes to a hotel and contemplates returning to Texas, to Sadie. Ultimately, he returns to his own time, having changed nothing, and history is restored to its original track after the diner is demolished. Learning that Sadie survived the confrontation with her ex-husband without his interference, he goes back to Jodie, where Sadie is now an old woman.
The two lovers from different timelines share a dance. The novel had been optioned by Jonathan Demme to be made into a film. Frankenfeld This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [Maybe someone from another planet named Seattle who is trying to stop reality itself from being torn apart. It couldn't be someone from a future earth Seattle because a It is doubtful anyone would have survived on that alternate earth for very long, and b they would be changing the past to prevent changing the past, which is a paradox.
Stephanie Fahey I think he's like the ferry man of the River Styx - you have to pay him to cross. Heidi But Al died before he got to be very old. Plus Jake would have still recognized Al no matter how old he might have gotten. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Error rating book.
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