The End of Eternity

by Isaac Asimov

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The kettle he left, of course, was not the same as the one he had boarded, in the sense that it was not composed of the same atoms. He did not worry about that any more than any Eternal would. To concern oneself with the mystique of Time-travel, rather than with the simple fact of it, was the mark of the Cub and newcomer to Eternity.

The 482nd was one of the many Centuries in which wealth was unevenly distributed.