 Before going to the funeral, Wireman's chosen successor - an able politician who knows he would never be able to equal Wireman, and has no desire to - wonders again at the source of Wireman's power.He glances at "Wireman's Time", the latest of many biographies of the late dictator (written by Robert Markham, Litt.D., and published by Columbia University Press, New York, 2512 A.D.).