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    The Point of View
    The Point of View
    The Point of View
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    The Point of View

    By Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      A charming story (the last of three) about the hapless assistant of a vain mad scientist. These stories revolve around the nature of love. Well worth reading.

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    Title: The Point of View

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    THE POINT OF VIEW

    I am too modest! snapped the great Haskel van Manderpootz, pacing irritably about the limited area of his private laboratory, glaring at me the while. That is the trouble. I undervalue my own achievements, and thereby permit petty imitators like Corveille to influence the committee and win the Morell prize.

    But, I said soothingly, you've won the Morell physics award half a dozen times, professor. They can't very well give it to you every year.

    Why not, since it is plain that I deserve it? bristled the professor. Understand, Dixon, that I do not regret my modesty, even though it permits conceited fools like Corveille, who have infinitely less reason than I for conceit, to win awards that mean nothing save prizes for successful bragging. Bah! To grant an award for research along such obvious lines that I neglected to mention them, thinking that even a Morell judge would appreciate their obviousness! Research on the psychon, eh! Who discovered the psychon? Who but van Manderpootz?

    Wasn't that what you got last year's award for? I asked consolingly. And after all, isn't this modesty, this lack of jealousy on your part, a symbol of greatness of character?

    True—true! said the great van Manderpootz, mollified. Had such an affront been committed against a lesser man than myself, he would doubtless have entered a bitter complaint against the judges. But not I. Anyway, I know from experience that it wouldn't do any good. And besides, despite his greatness, van Manderpootz is as modest and shrinking as a violet. At this point he paused, and his broad red face tried to look violet-like.

    I suppressed a smile. I knew the eccentric genius of old, from the days when I had been Dixon Wells, undergraduate student of engineering, and had taken a course in Newer Physics (that is, in Relativity) under the famous professor. For some unguessable reason, he had taken a fancy to me, and as a result, I had been involved in several of his experiments since graduation. There

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