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The Immortal Bard

by Isaac Asimov

Dr. Phineas Welch tells an English professor a disturbing story about a matter of temporal transference and a student in the professor’s Shakespeare class.
I did. I needed someone with a universal mind; someone who knew people well enough to be able to live with them centuries way from his own time. Shakespeare was the man. I’ve got his signature. As a memento, you know.
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“The Immortal Bard,” in Universe Science Fiction, May 1954.
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