This Book Has Two Authors
This book has two authors, one contemporary with its readers, the other an inhabitant of an age which they would call the distant future. The brain that conceives and writes these sentences lives in the time of Einstein. Yet I, the true inspirer of this book, I who have begotten it upon that brain, I who influence that primitive being’s conception, inhabit an age which, for Einstein, lies in the very remote future.
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Context: The opening of the book, in which a far-future man explains how he speaks through a present-day writer.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Introduction, by One of the Last Men