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1970: In the same year when young Jack Havig is in Berkeley, the older Jack Havig and his partner, Leonce, visit Robert Anderson in Senlac. In 1951, young Jack had told this Anderson (not ours) about his experiences in Berkeley. Now the older Havig will try to get some discrete confidential help from what Anderson calls:
"'...good, responsible scholars at Berkeley!'" (p. 153)
No doubt that word, "responsible," carries political overtones! But never mind. What matters here is that Havig is starting to get academic and organizational help in setting up his anti-Eyrie time travel group.
Anderson meets Leonce, his first and only time traveller from the future or indeed from any other time. That freaks him. Poul Anderson, who will fictionalize Robert Anderson's notes, cannot have such an encounter.
I am rereading a comic book by Elliot S. Maggin in which Clark Kent meets a woman whom he knows to be from the twenty-ninth century because he has already met her in a prose novel also by Maggin. The republic of letters (and sometimes also of sequential art) is one.
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