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From: brenda@rocksvax.UUCP (Brenda K. Joseph)
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Subject: RE: BACK TO THE FUTURE
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 17:18:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 17:18:38 1985
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**********This is a spoiler***********
	(sorry I forgot to put this on
	my subject line.  This is my first posting
	to the net.)

If you look closely at the letter that the doc shows Marty in this future,
you can easily see the yellowed tape and where the tears don't quite meet 
from him putting it back together
after he tore it apart.  I watched (twice) and he does put the letter in his
pocket thirty years ago after tearing it up.

He does NOT have the vest on before Marty goes back to the future.  
I sat through it twice
the other day, after seeing it once previously.

REgarding paradoxes: 
This movie traces a line, not a loop.  The line is Marty's existence and his knowlede of events around him.  Before he goes back in time, the world is as we
know it and his world is as shown in the movie.  While back in time, he changes certain events.  For instance,  Chuck Berry hears him playing Johnny B Goode.
Had Marty never gone back in time, he would have learned it the same way he did
in our own past.  I believe the same logic resolves Doc and Marty meeting.  
They met without Marty going back, they will meet again
 (esp. since Doc now knows
Marty).

When Marty comes "back", the people around him are aware of the changes he has
"caused" to the timeline, but he isn't.  He hasn't lived through them.  

***My only problem is -- what happens to the Marty that lived in this new
universe up until the time the "original" Marty came back
from the future?  A friend
recommended I read "Thrice Upon A Time".  Apparently this has similar views
and puts forth  the theory that when Marty comes back from the past, the Marty
that has been living in the "altered universe" ceases to exist.  (I forget the
author's name -- haven't had a chance to read it yet.)

			Brenda Joseph
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