Twice in Time
Inventor Leo Thrasher, perhaps the last modern-day Renaissance man, builds a machine to
throw him back to Renaissance Italy, where he plans to leave his mark as a painter. Once
there, he’s taken under the wing of Guaracco who views him as a potential rival, but
still sees a use for the time traveler. When Leo’s memory of future wonders begins to
fade, Guaracco pulls 20th-century memories from Leo’s subconscious via hypnotic
interviews, somehow even managing to pull out (among other more mundane things) a working
pair of wings for Leo to fly over 15th-century Florence.
But suppose this me is taken completely out of Twentieth Century
existence—dematerialized, recreated in another epoch. That makes twice in time,
doesn’t it?