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studies scheduled Reality Changes until he comes up with the faulty one planned for the 2456th [H 17]. Twissell tells him by vision plate that the Reality Change in the 482nd was entirely successful and that he will see Harlan tomorrow in the Computing Room [H 18]. Harlan goes to the 2456th [H 19] to have Nos's existence Life-Plotted [H 20-26]. He goes racing upwhen to tell Nos and slams into the barrier at the 100,100th [H 27]. He returns, with the neuronic whip, to confront Finge. |
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Chapter 11. Harlan returns to his quarters in the 575th, tries to see Twissell and fails, finally goes to sleep, and is awakened the next morning for lunch with the subcommittee of the Allwhen Council. Finally, he confronts Twissell with his conclusion that Cooper is returning to the 24th to teach the Lefebvre equations to Mallansohn. Twissell tells him that Cooper is Mallansohn [H 28]. |
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Chapter 12. Harlan expresses his concerns about Nos, and Twissell tries to reassure him [H 29]. Then Twissell tells Harlan about the memoir Mallansohn left behind [E (for Eternity) 1] and its description of how Cooper was inducted into Eternity [C 3], trained in mathematics by Twissell and in Primitive sociology by Harlan [H 3], and sent back to teach Mallansohn [C 4] but became Mallansohn and left the memoir [C 5, M 1]. Twissell tells Harlan how the memoir passed down through Eternity until it reached him when he became a Senior Computer [T 3]. He leads Harlan into the room with the enclosed kettle and then into the control room where Harlan finds himself locked in [H 30]. |
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Chapter 13. As Harlan watches [H 31], Twissell tells Cooper [C 6] what Cooper later [C 7] will write in his memoir in the 24th [C 2]. Twissell also describes what his experimental group did to calibrate the energy thrust necessary to transport Cooper [T 4]. With Harlan's hands at the controls, Cooper is sent back [H 32] and Harlan awaits the end of eternity. Then Harlan tells Twissell [H 33] what he did with the controls [H 32]. |
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Chapter 14. Twissell and Harlan [H 34] discuss the causes of Harlan's actions and the reasons for their misunderstanding [H 28-29]. Twissell also tells of Finge's request for Harlan's services and Finge's communication about Harlan to the Allwhen Council that came automatically to Twissell [T 5]. He also recalls a liaison he once enjoyed with a woman when he was a Junior Computer [T 1] and the child she bore before her death. He watched the child grow and even visited him when the son was 34 [T 21], and he describes the Reality Change he agreed to that as a side effect turned his son into a paraplegic at the age of four [T 22]. |
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Chapter 15. Harlan tries to duplicate his spastic movement of the thrust control and then searches his news magazines for a message |
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