Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 71 — page 132: what you’re looking at

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THE GREAT JUDGE quadrillions of minute ex- periences and, as he had discovered, finally gave to each body its own special neural vibration. Would it be possible, by artificially forcing that exact vibration upon another body, to establish a nerve energy flow between the two bodies? A flow so natural and easy that every cell would be impregnated with the thoughts and memories of the other body? A fiow so complete, that, when properly chan- nelled, the personality of one body would flow into the other? The fact that a dog acted like a chicken was not com- plete proof. Normally, he would have experimented very carefully before trying it’on a human being. When the Sci- ence Investigator called on him two days before the date of the execution, he gassed the man, and made the ex- periment then and there. The transference was not absolutely complete. Blurred memories remained behind, enough to make the routine of going to the Great Judge’s Court familiar and easy. He had worried about that. It was important that he follow the right etiquette in approaching a man who normally per- mitted no one near him but people he had learned to trust. As it turned out he did everything right. The moment he felt the blurring sensation which marked the beginning of the transfer of his personal- ity from the body of the Science Investigator to the body of the Great Judge, Aird acted. He released a gas to- ward the Great Judge that would revive the man in about five minutes. Simul- taneously, he sprayed -his present body with instantane- ous anesthetic gas. Even as he sank into unconsciousness, he could feel the sharp, hard personality of the Great Judge slipping into the Investigator’s body. Five minutes later, Douglas Aird, now in the body of the Great Judge, opened his eyes, 131 conmiclsooks.<Onn