Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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"Maybe we ought to eat something first," I said. "I'm beginning to feel one thing he could bring back and though he didn't want to Arth closed his eyes in pain. "Vegetarian," he said. "Couldn't possibly eat meat. Barbarous. Ugh." "Well, we need some nourishment," ... nevertheless he did.... ox." from the wonderful future ... mildly, "You're late." "Don't yell at me, I almost as though reciting, "What I need is a vacation." That seemed like a good question. I thought about it for a while. Finally Simon said, mournful of tone, "Fifty dollars? Why not make it five hundred?" "I'm not selfish," Betty said. "All "Money," Simon said. "When you Simon said, enigmatically, "Now Arth did something and the window went opaque. Simon said unenthusiastically, "That's quite a gadget," I groaned. "If I didn't feel so lousy, I'd appreciate it." three hundred dollars you still retain caste whatever the styling. Simon, said finally, "You know What a stupidity. I'll be phased. Phased all the way down." "You haven't got a handful of "You didn't have a hotel. aspirin, have you?" I asked him. "Anything," Simon said. "Only "Excellent. Do you believe in time "I'm clean. I won't mess up the place. All I've got is a hangover, not lice." ventured, "Time travel is impossible." "Why?" "Why?" "Yes, why?" Simon continued to say nothing she had a time machine and traveled back a hundred years or so and killed your own great-grandfather. Then how could you ever be born?" "Confound it if I know," the little fellow growled. "How?" Simon said, "Let's get to the point, some time travelers," the old boy wrong. But I didn't care. I finished my mass "Then you'll realize that there are a dozen explanations of the paradoxes of time travel. Every writer in the field worth his salt has explained them away. But to get on. It's my contention that within a century or so man will have solved the problems of immortality and eternal youth, and it's also my suspicion that he will eventually be able to travel in time. Arth didn't put up an argument that I am willing to gamble a portion of my fortune to investigate on that. We said good-by and I could So convinced am I of these possibilities Simon seemed incapable of carrying said, "But ... Mr. Oyster, if the future has developed time travel why don't we ever meet such travelers?" Simon put in a word. "The usual afford to allow the space-time continuum make heads nor tails of the check time traveler returned to a period of receipt. He didn't speak English and then all subsequent history would be changed. In that case, the time traveler himself might never be born. They have to tread mighty carefully." Mr. Oyster was pleased. "I didn't expect you to be so well informed on the subject, young man." Simon shrugged and fumbled my high school German was inadequate, considering the matter for some time and—" Simon held up a hand. "There's no use prolonging this. As I understand it, you're an elderly gentleman with a considerable fortune and you realize that thus far nobody has succeeded in taking it with him." nobody their perch, bug-eyed Simon, but then should drink Simon said, "You want to hire me to find a time traveler and in some do—exhort from him the secret of eternal life and youth, which you figure evidently. The trip back was as uninteresting the future will have discovered. a bona fide time traveler." "Right!" would have stayed, I told myself. , that's where they'd be!" He seemed ," he repeated. "The greatest festival the world has think of to show for it nothing but "You'll miss your plane," Betty said. the calendar. Mr. Oyster was saying something to the effect that if I didn't leave today, it would have to be tomorrow, that he hadn't ponied up that thousand dollars advance for anything less than immediate service. Stuffing his receipt in his wallet, he fussed "All right," Simon said. "We'll accept . For one thing, a time traveler wouldn't "But why would a time traveler "Why not! What better opportunity to study a people than when they "See here," Mr. Oyster said (interrupting Simon's story), "did you say this was supposed to be amusing, young man? I don't find it so. In fact, I believe I am being ridiculed." Simon shrugged, put one hand to his forehead and said, "That's only more." "I'm not interested in more," Mr. Oyster said. "I suppose your point was to show me how ridiculous the whole idea actually is. Very well, you've done it. Confound it. However, I suppose your time, even when spent in this manner, has some value. you'd have to stick to some great event, both for the sake of actual interest and for protection against being Here is fifty dollars. And good day, Simon winced at the noise, took sir!" as a suspicious character not being able to speak the language, not unmasked." The old boy wound it up. "Well, Simon was shaking his head. "Not But I'm surprised you didn't take his money and enjoy that vacation you've been yearning about." interested." Mr. Oyster was taken aback himself. "See here, young man, I realize Simon nodded, miserably. this isn't an ordinary assignment, Simon "A hundred dollars a day plus expenses," time traveler, there might have Mr. Oyster said quietly. "I "I keep telling you," Simon said like the fact that you already seem Probably thousands." He took a deep breath. "Listen, we're just going to have to forget about it. They're not going to stand for the space-time "No go," Simon said, a sad quality in his voice. you bring me a time traveler." "Out of the question," Simon said. "But why "A fifty thousand dollar bonus if "Just for laughs," Simon told the "You mean," Betty was suddenly furious at him, "you've given up! Why this is the biggest thing— Why the fifty thousand dollars is nothing. The future! Just think!" Simon said wearily, "There's just Oyster (Simon began) in the way What's more you can pile one on top of the other, and another on top of that!" He shuddered. "If you think I'm going to take another crack at this again." THE END Transcriber's Note: Astounding Science Fiction June money. Time travel yet! What a 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. chickens, the herds of oxen. Who ponied up all the money for such expenditures? How could the average German, with his twenty-five dollars a week salary? masses , by the way, not mugs. The bald-headed sipping, I said, "You know, the tourist pamphlets say this stuff is eighteen per cent. That's nonsense. He looked at me, waiting. I came up. "Mistaken," I admitted. Shouldn't have said that." I had never heard of the brand so I skipped it. "Next is the Hofbräu," he said. "Next what?" Baldy's conversation one of the seven brands of the best beer the world has ever known. I'm only as far as Löwenbräu. I'm afraid I'll never make it." I finished my Name is Simon." was the smallest amount obtainable. A beer later I said, "I don't know if you'll make it or not, Arth." "Make what?"

<question>:
What does Simon think about the possibility of time travel?

<options>:
A He thinks it's possible, but finds it ridiculous that Oktoberfest would be the place to find it.
B He hopes that it's real, and spends a lot of time thinking about how to avoid a paradox.
C He knows that it's real, but thinks that its secret will be kept in the future.
D He thinks it's incredibly stupid and not worth considering.

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C