10 the space-time continuum travelers began to run behind the giant tyrannosaurus across a surrealistic plateau , as if the great beast opened a hole in the space-time continuum they could get through , maybe back to earth as they knew it , for they saw green vegetation through the mists and , in the distance , the sight of a great pyramid which almost put some of them off , the way one can be alienated by a stranger , who , closer up , turns out to be someone one knows .