."

"I bet you know a lot."

"I do," the man with the Asiatic features said modestly. "Anyway, they
finally got across to me that in the 22nd century--they had explained
the calendar to me, too; I used a different one in my day--they had
learned how to grow new limbs on people who had lost arms and legs."

"That was the first real step," said the girl.

"It was a long time till they got to the second step," he said. "They
learned how to stimulate life and new growth in people who had already
died."

"The next part is the thing I don't understand," the girl said.

"Well," said the man, "as I get it, they found that any piece of matter
that has been part of an organism, retains a physical 'memory' of the
entire structure of the organism of which it was part. And that they
could reconstruct that structure from a part of a person, if that was
all there was left of him. From there it was just a matter of pushing
the process back through time. They had to teach me a whole new language
to explain that one."

"Isn't it wonderful that intergalactic travel gives us room to expand?"
said the girl. "I mean now that every human being that ever lived has
been brought back to life and will live forever?"

"Same problem I had, me and my people," said the man. "We were cramped
for space. This age has solved it a lot better than I did. But they had
to give me a whole psychological overhauling before I understood that."

"Tell me about your past life," said the girl, staring dreamily at him.

"Well, six thousand years ago, I was born in the Gobi Desert, on Earth,"
said Genghis Khan, sipping his drink.

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from _Fantastic Universe_ December 1957.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
typographical errors have been corrected without note.

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