This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twains to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial Several weeks after completing it I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butlers Note-books
The story was published in Colliers last summer and provoked this st...