1979 Penny

That fateful image towards the end of Jeannot Szwarc's Somewhere in Time (1980), when Richard Collier (played by Christopher Reeve) pulls out the 1979 penny from his pocket, and is transported irreversibly back to his own time, leaving his love Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour) in 1912. What if one were to think of this time-travel romance as a metaphor? Across space or across ideology. The irreversible, insurmountable gaps that separate us, making no distinction between ideal and material existence. Is heaven to come or is heaven that which is reflected back upon? The eternal beckoning, "come back to me..."