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"
Cooper
used
the
name
of
Vikkor
Mallansohn
in
all
this
because
it
gave
him
a
background
and
made
him
an
authentic
product
of
the
24th
.
The
body
of
the
real
Mallansohn
was
never
recovered
.
"
In
the
remainder
of
his
life
,
he
cherished
his
generator
and
cooperated
with
the
Institute
scientists
in
duplicating
it
.
He
dared
do
no
more
than
that
.
He
could
not
teach
them
the
Lefebvre
equations
without
outlining
three
Centuries
of
mathematical
development
that
was
to
come
.
He
could
not
,
dared
not
hint
at
his
true
origin
.
He
dared
not
do
more
than
the
real
Vikkor
Mallansohn
had
,
to
his
knowledge
,
done
.
"
The
men
who
worked
with
him
were
frustrated
to
find
a
man
who
could
perform
so
brilliantly
and
yet
was
unable
to
explain
the
whys
of
his
performance
.
And
he
himself
was
frustrated
too
,
because
he
foresaw
,
without
in
any
way
being
able
to
quicken
,
the
work
that
would
lead
,
step
by
step
,
to
the
classic
experiments
of
Jan
Verdeer
,
and
how
from
that
the
great
Antoine
Lefebvre
would
construct
the
basic
equations
of
Reality
.
And
how
,
after
that
,
Eternity
would
be
constructed
.
"
It
was
only
toward
the
end
of
his
long
life
that
Cooper
,
staring
into
a
Pacific
sunset
(
he
describes
the
scene
in
some
detail
in
his
memoir
)
came
to
the
great
realization
that
he
was
Vikkor
Mallansohn
;
he
was
not
a
substitute
but
the
man
himself
.
The
name
might
not
be
his
,
but
the
man
history
called
Mallansohn
was
really
Brinsley
Sheridan
Cooper
.
"
Fired
with
that
thought
,
and
with
all
that
implied
,
anxious
that
the
process
of
establishing
Eternity
be
somehow
quickened
,
improved
,
and
made
more
secure
,
he
wrote
his
memoir
and
placed
it
in
a
cube
of
Time
-
stasis
in
the
living
room
of
his
house
.
"
And
so
the
circle
was
closed
.
Cooper
-
Mallansohn
’
s
intentions
in
writing
the
memoir
were
,
of
course
,
disregarded
.
Cooper
must
go
through
his
life
exactly
as
he
had
gone
through
it
.
Primitive
Reality
allows
of
no
changes
.
At
this
moment
in
physiotime
,
the
Cooper
you
know
is
unaware
of
what
lies
ahead
of
him
.
He
believes
he
is
only
to
instruct
Mallansohn
and
to
return
.
He
will
continue
to
believe
so
until
the
years
teach
him
differently
and
he
sits
down
to
write
his
memoir
.
"
The
intention
of
the
circle
in
Time
is
to
establish
the
knowledge
of
Time
-
travel
and
of
the
nature
of
Reality
,
to
build
Eternity
,
ahead
of
its
natural
Time
.
Left
to
itself
,
mankind
would
not
have
learned
the
truth
about
Time
before
their
technological
advances
in
other
directions
had
made
racial
suicide
inevitable
.
"
Harlan
listened
intently
,
caught
up
in
the
vision
of
a
mighty
circle
in
Time
,
closed
upon
itself
,
and
traversing
Eternity
in
part
of
its
course
.
He
came
as
close
to
forgetting
Noys
,
for
the
moment
,
as
he
ever
could
.
He
asked
,
"
Then
you
knew
all
along
everything
you
were
to
do
,
everything
I
was
to
do
,
everything
I
have
done
.
"
