The detail that best supports the idea that the people in the future are confused about where the narrator has come from is:
I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything. Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children-asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm.
In The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, we learn of the author and people whom he had built the Time Machine for. They were marveled to see him and wondered where he had come from.
The question from one of the observers shows that the people were confused about where the narrator had come from. He thought that the author had come from the thunderstorm.
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