Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Moon Maid Edgar Rice Burroughs

I must have looked up at him quizzically, for he smiled and shook his head as onewho is puzzled to find an explanation suited to the mental capacity of his auditor."My great-great-grandfather was, in reality, the great-great-grandson of myprevious incarnation which commenced in 1896. I married in 1916, at the age oftwenty. My son Julian was born in 1917. I never saw him. I was killed in France in1918-on Armistice Day."I was again reincarnated in my son's son in 1937. I am thirty years of age. My sonwas born in 1970-that is the son of my 1937 incarnation-and his son, Julian 5th, inwhom I again returned to Earth, in the year 2000. I see you are confused, but pleaseremember my injunction that you are to try to keep in mind the theory that there isno such thing as Time. It is now the year 1967 yet I recall distinctly every event ofmy life that occurred in four incarnations-the last that I recall being that whichhad its origin in the year 2100. Whether I actually skipped three generations thattime or through some caprice of Fate I am merely unable to visualize an interveningincarnation, I do not know.