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He
stared
at
Harlan
quizzically
and
said
,
"
You
know
,
I
still
can
’
t
quite
believe
that
you
worked
this
out
on
your
own
,
"
then
went
on
:
"
The
man
most
of
Eternity
knows
as
Vikkor
Mallansohn
left
the
record
of
his
life
behind
him
after
he
died
.
It
was
not
quite
a
diary
,
not
quite
a
biography
.
It
was
more
of
a
guide
,
bequeathed
to
the
Eternals
he
knew
would
someday
exist
.
It
was
enclosed
in
a
volume
of
Time
-
stasis
which
could
be
opened
only
by
the
Computers
of
Eternity
,
and
which
therefore
remained
untouched
for
three
Centuries
after
his
death
,
until
Eternity
was
established
and
Senior
Computer
Henry
Wadsman
,
the
first
of
the
great
Eternals
,
opened
it
.
The
document
has
been
passed
along
in
strictest
security
since
,
along
a
line
of
Senior
Computers
ending
with
myself
.
It
is
referred
to
as
the
Mallansohn
memoir
.
"
The
memoir
tells
the
story
of
a
man
named
Brinsley
Sheridan
Cooper
,
born
in
the
78th
,
inducted
as
a
Cub
into
Eternity
at
the
age
of
twenty
-
three
,
having
been
married
for
a
little
over
a
year
,
but
having
been
,
as
yet
,
childless
.
"
Having
entered
Eternity
,
Cooper
was
trained
in
mathematics
by
a
Computer
named
Laban
Twissell
and
in
Primitive
sociology
by
a
Technician
named
Andrew
Harlan
.
After
a
thorough
grounding
in
both
disciplines
,
and
in
such
matters
as
temporal
engineering
as
well
,
he
was
sent
back
to
the
24th
to
teach
certain
necessary
techniques
to
a
Primitive
scientist
named
Vikkor
Mallansohn
.
"
Once
having
reached
the
24th
,
he
embarked
first
on
a
slow
process
of
adjusting
himself
to
the
society
.
In
this
he
benefited
a
great
deal
from
the
training
of
Technician
Harlan
and
the
detailed
advice
of
Computer
Twissell
,
who
seemed
to
have
an
uncanny
insight
into
some
of
the
problems
he
was
to
face
.
"
After
the
passage
of
two
years
,
Cooper
located
one
Vikkor
Mallansohn
,
an
eccentric
recluse
in
the
California
backwoods
,
relationless
and
friendless
but
gifted
with
a
daring
and
unconventional
mind
.
Cooper
made
friends
slowly
,
acclimated
the
man
to
the
thought
of
having
met
a
traveler
from
the
future
still
more
slowly
,
and
set
about
teaching
the
man
the
mathematics
he
must
know
.
"
With
the
passage
of
time
,
Cooper
adopted
the
other
’
s
habits
,
learned
to
shift
for
himself
with
the
help
of
a
clumsy
Diesel
-
oil
electric
generator
and
with
wired
electrical
appliances
which
freed
them
of
dependence
on
power
beams
.
"
But
progress
was
slow
and
Cooper
found
himself
something
less
than
a
marvelous
teacher
.
Mallansohn
grew
morose
and
unco
-
operative
and
then
one
day
died
,
quite
suddenly
,
in
a
fall
down
a
canyon
of
the
wild
,
mountainous
country
in
which
they
lived
.
Cooper
,
after
weeks
of
despair
,
with
the
ruin
of
his
lifework
and
,
presumably
,
of
all
Eternity
,
staring
him
in
the
eye
,
decided
on
a
desperate
expedient
.
He
did
not
report
Mallansohn
’
s
death
.
Instead
,
he
slowly
took
to
building
,
out
of
the
materials
at
hand
,
a
Temporal
Field
.
"
The
details
do
not
matter
.
He
succeeded
after
mountains
of
drudgery
and
improvisation
and
took
the
generator
to
the
California
Institute
of
Technology
,
just
as
years
before
he
had
expected
the
real
Mallansohn
to
do
.
"
You
know
the
story
from
your
own
studies
.
You
know
of
the
disbelief
and
rebuffs
he
first
met
,
his
period
under
observation
,
his
escape
and
the
near
-
loss
of
his
generator
,
the
help
he
received
from
the
man
at
the
lunch
counter
whose
name
he
never
learned
,
but
who
is
now
one
of
Eternity
’
s
heroes
,
and
of
the
final
demonstration
for
Professor
Zimbalist
,
in
which
a
white
mouse
moved
backward
and
forward
in
time
.
I
won
’
t
bore
you
with
any
of
that
.
