The Man Who Was Lost, Chapter 1

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​‌‌‌‌​​⁠Here are the facts in the case as they were known in the beginning to Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, scientist and logician. After hearing a statement of the problem from the lips of its principal he declared it to be one of the most engaging that had ever come to his attention, and—

But let me begin at the beginning:

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The Thinking Machine was in the small laboratory of his modest apartm