Before going to the funeral, Wireman's chosen successor - an able politician who knows he would never be able to equal Wireman, and has no desire to - wonders again at the source of Wireman's power. He glances at Wireman's Time, the latest of many biographies of the late dictator (written by Robert Markham, Litt. D., and published by Columbia University Press, New York, 2512 A.D.).
Before going to the funeral, Wireman's designated successor - a skilled politician who acknowledged he could never surpass Wireman and had no ambition to - reflects on the source of Wireman's authority. He examines Wireman's biography, Time, one of many accounts of the late leader (written by Robert Markham, Litt. D., and published by Columbia University Press, New York, 2512 A.D.).