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Fisher - -Release Date: March 16, 2016 [EBook #51475] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EAST IN THE MORNING *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - -East In the Morning - -By DAVID E. FISHER - -Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS - -[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from -Galaxy Magazine February 1960. -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -<i>Natural laws are cliches--"what must be -must be," for instance--and what must be in -this case was, of all people, Dr. Talbot!</i> - - -The first thirty years of Henry Talbot's life were the most promising. -He was a bright student through high school, and in college his fellow -students often used the word "brilliant" in discussing his mentality; -occasionally even his instructors echoed them. - -Upon receiving his bachelor's degree, he went to graduate school and -eventually received his Ph.D. as an experimental nuclear physicist. -He applied for and got a research position at Oak Ridge National -Laboratory, in the Electronuclear Research Division. - -Dr. Henry Talbot, brilliant young scientist, began his career -enthusiastically, and ran into a brick wall. - -Rather, he crawled up to and against it, for it took several years -for him to discover that his life's route lay not on an unobstructed -downhill slide. Those years slithered past before he looked up and -realized that he had not revolutionized the scientific world; he had -discovered no principle of relativity, no quantum theory. - -He stopped working for a moment and looked around. All his colleagues -were enthusiastic and brilliant young scientists. Where at school, -where throughout his life, he had been outstanding, now he was one -of the crowd. What had passed for brilliance before was now merely -competence. - -Henry Talbot felt a vague need which he perceived liquor might fill. -That afternoon he left work early for the first time since he had -arrived at Oak Ridge. He had to buy the vodka from a bootlegger, -Oak Ridge being in a dry county. But, as in most dry counties, that -presented no problem. He stopped by Shorty's cab stand, across the -street from the police department, and asked Shorty for a bottle. -Shorty reached into the glove compartment and, for fifty cents over -list price, the vodka changed hands. Henry didn't like to patronize the -bootleggers, but he did feel the need for a quick one just this once. - -After drinking for several hours in his apartment, Henry Talbot took -stock of himself and came to two conclusions: - -1. He was satisfied with himself and his life. He had always taken for -granted that he would one day be a famous figure in some scientific -field, true, but this was actually not so important as, upon casual -inspection, it might seem. He liked his work, otherwise he could never -have been so wrapped up in it, and he saw no reason for discontinuing -it or for becoming despondent over his lack of fame. After all, he -reasoned, he had never been famous and yet had been always perfectly -content. - -2. He liked vodka. - -<tb> - -The next thirty years of Henry Talbot's life, now devoid of promise, -were fulfilling and content. He worked steadily and drank as the mood -fell upon him, publishing on the average one paper a year. These papers -were thorough, the experiments well worked out, without contrived -results or varnished sloppiness. The publications were accepted -everywhere as solid research papers. - -Henry Talbot's name became familiar in the nuclear field. He did not -find his face on the cover of <i>Time</i>, nor was he ever invited to -participate as an "expert" on any television quiz programs, yet he was -well known to nuclear researchers--at least those in his own country. -He was honored with a banquet on his fiftieth birthday. <i>Person to -Person</i> once tentatively proposed to visit him, but the idea was -squelched, a visit to a more buxom personality being substituted. - -Sex never reared its ugly head. He had not had time for it when young, -and so had never fallen into the habit. - -At the age of sixty-five he retired. He canceled his subscription to -the <i>Physical Review</i>, bought a fishing rod, subscribed to the <i>New -Yorker</i>, and tried Florida. He started at Tallahassee and fished his -way down to Ocala. By the time he had reached St. Petersburg, he had -decided to try California. - -In California he took up golf. He bought a hi-fi set and a dozen -progressive jazz records, advertised as unbreakable. They proved not to -be, although in fairness to the advertiser it must be said that Henry -Talbot had to exert himself. - -He decided to try a world cruise. He left the scheduled tour in Japan -and visited the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Tokyo, spending -some time there just generally chewing the bilingual rag. When he -returned to the United States, he renewed his subscription to the -<i>Physical Review</i>, canceled his subscription to the <i>New Yorker</i>, and -looked around for another position. - -He went to work for the Arnold Research Corporation on a part-time, -semi-retired basis. But he had his own lab, his hours were his own, and -in a few weeks he was working full time. No one was disturbed by this, -he did not apply for more money or recognition, he kept to himself, and -he began publishing his one paper each year. - -On the tenth year afterward his paper was missing, though not missed. -He began to spend less time in his lab and more in the library and -behind his desk, scribbling on scraps of paper or staring into space. -He was forgotten by the Arnold Research Corporation. He was content -with his books and his monthly check. - -In his seventy-fourth year, Henry Talbot published a paper in -the <i>Philosophical Magazine</i> on what he called the "Warped Field -Theory." The theory was entirely his own, from beginning to end, and -constituted--in his opinion--the first real breakthrough in theoretical -physics since Albert Einstein's little idea in 1905. The day the -article came out he sat behind his desk all day, puffing on his pipe, -not merely content but really happy for the first time in his life. - -<tb> - -Life continued undisturbed for three more months. Then Larry Arnold, -Jr., came into his office, carrying a copy of the <i>Philosophical -Magazine</i>. Larry Arnold, Jr., was not a scientist but, as he put it, -he was scientifically minded and was general overseer, public relations -man, and coordinator of coordinators of research. - -He humphed a few times, groaned as he sat down across the desk from -Henry, wheezed twice, smiled once, and said, "Good morning, Dr. Talbot." - -"Good morning," Henry replied, folding his hands and trying to look -humble yet brilliant. - -"I read your article," Arnold said, feebly waving the magazine around -before him, "and I don't mind admitting I didn't understand a word -of it. Well, I'm not a man to hide his lack of knowledge so I went -right out and asked some of the men working here about it. They didn't -understand it either. I called up a few people around the country. -I--Dr. Talbot, I don't know how exactly to say this to you. I don't -know what you intended with this article, but it's got people laughing -at us and we can't have that." - -Henry kept the same humble look on his face; he fought to keep the same -expression. He didn't know what his face might look like if he relaxed -for a moment. - -"We didn't expect much research from you when we hired you. Well, we -know we're not paying you much, and we don't mind if you don't put out -much work. Hell, we don't care if you don't put out <i>any</i> work. We get -our money's worth in good will when people know we've got an old pro -like you on our payroll; the young kids can see we won't kick them out -when they're all used up. But when you put out papers like this one--" -and here he waved the magazine a bit more violently, getting warmed -up--"when you do this, and it says Arnold Research Corporation right -here under your name, people don't just laugh at you. They laugh at the -whole organization. They think that this whole place is going around -doing fantastic research like this--this warped field." - -He stopped when he saw the look slip a bit from Henry's face, and he -saw what was there beneath it. He dropped his eyes and wheezed twice, -then heaved his bulk out of the chair. - -"I didn't mean to slam into you that way, Dr. Talbot. You know it's -an honor to have you associated with the firm. We were even thinking -of giving you a testimonial banquet next week on your seventy-fifth -birthday.... It is next week, isn't it? Well, what I mean to say is--I -mean we all appreciate the good solid research you've been doing all -these years. It's just that--well, you won't fool around like this -any more, now will you? And we'll just forget all about it. No hard -feelings." - -He left quickly, and the door closed behind him. - -For the first time in seventy-five years, or in the last sixty-nine at -least, Henry Talbot cried. - -After he cried, he became angry. He wanted to shout, so he left the -office early and hurried to his apartment where he could shout without -disturbing anyone, which he did. He then took out the vodka, settled -Bucephalus, his cat, on his lap and began to pour. - -Several hours later Henry Talbot sprawled in the armchair and took -stock of himself. He came to two conclusions: - -1. At his age, what did he care about fame? He knew his theory -was sound, and if the people in his own country didn't appreciate -it, what difference did it make? Now, free from rancor, he could -understand how they must have received his paper. They all knew old -Dr. Talbot--seventy-five and not dead yet. What a ridiculous age -for a nuclear physicist! Now he's turning theoretical, they must -have chuckled. So they started his paper. And when they came to the -first unorthodox assumption, when they reached the first of the many -mathematical complexities and indeed paradoxes, they must have closed -the magazine and had a good laugh over a cup of coffee. - -Had the article been written by some unknown twenty-five-year-old, they -would all hail him as a new genius. But coming from old Henry Talbot, -the article was ludicrous. - -Well, he didn't care. Abroad, he was not so well known. Some countries -would not have heard of him at all. They'd read the article seriously, -one or two men would understand it. They'd run some experiments to -confirm or deny the hypotheses and Henry was confident the experiments -would prove him right. He had only to wait. Of course he hadn't much -time left, but perhaps they would do it in a year or two, and perhaps -he'd still be here to see it and have the last laugh. - -2. He still liked vodka. - -<tb> - -It was nineteen years before two Finnish physicists, Arkadt and -Findrun, ran the necessary experiments. Of the many who had read the -article, some knew Talbot and thus laughed it off, some could not -understand it and some understood it and waxed enthusiastic. Eventually -the enthusiasm spread to the Finnish Institute for Applied Research -where the essential equipment was available. The experiments were an -unqualified success. - -As soon as the experiments were confirmed, Arkadt sent a telegram to -Dr. Henry Talbot, in care of the address which had appeared with his -original article, informing him of the happy developments. He and -Findrun were still celebrating their spectacular success a week later, -this time with Dr. Arrhenial, director of the institute, when Arkadt -mentioned that he had sent such a telegram and had received as yet no -answer. - -Arrhenial smiled into his vodka. "Didn't you know? Talbot was -seventy-five years old when he wrote that article. I'm afraid you were -a little too late for him." - -"I didn't know," Arkadt replied. - -"A shame," Findrun murmured. "It would have made him so happy." - -The telephone rang and Arkadt answered it. His wife was calling, with -unusual news. He had just received a letter from America. Imagine that. -From a Henry Talbot. - -<tb> - -Henry Talbot saw his face on the cover of <i>Time</i> magazine. He refused -a request to appear on a television quiz program. (The contestant -the network had had in mind to appear with Henry won his money -nevertheless, in the category Theoretical Physics, by correctly naming -the year in which Einstein first published his Theory of Relativity, -the number of papers which comprised the entire theory, the language -in which it was first published, the magazine in which it was first -published, the year in which the magazine was first printed, the -name of the first printer of the magazine, and the year in which he -died.) Henry Talbot was termed "The Dean of American Men of Science" -by the New York <i>Times</i>, which paper triumphantly reported that only -thirteen people in the world understood his Warped Field Theory. -When asked if there was now anything else for science to do, he -replied, "Indubitably." When pressed for more details, he said that -his housekeeper always removed his vodka from the refrigerator at -three-thirty, and that if he did not immediately return home, it would -become unbearably warm. - -On the occasion of his ninety-fifth birthday, he was given a gigantic -testimonial banquet by the Arnold Research Corporation, "under whose -auspices the entire research which culminated in the justly famous -Warped Field Theory was conducted." - -The next week, when he requested the use of their massive cyclotron to -run an experiment, he was told that the machine was in use at the time. -A week later, his request was again shunted off. This happened twice -more, and Henry went to see Larry Arnold, Jr. - -The coordinator was affable, and told Henry that he had checked -himself, and that unfortunately the machine was in use and that of -course since he, Talbot, was actually at the lab on only a part-time -basis, he could not expect to usurp the machine from full-time research -workers. - -Henry asked what kind of research was being done. - -Larry wheezed twice and told him it was investigating certain aspects -of the Warped Field Theory. - -"I invented the goddam theory and I can't even get at the machine?" -Henry shouted. - -"Please, Dr. Talbot. Let's be reasonable. You discovered that theory -twenty years ago. I mean, after all. You're an older man now, and -that's an expensive piece of machinery--" - -Henry slammed the door as he walked out, was not satisfied with the -effect, came back and slammed it again, this time shattering the glass. -He felt a little better, strode down the hall, and resigned the next -day, quietly and undramaticly. - -He disappeared into retirement. Reports of his death were printed -occasionally. They were never denied. They stopped after several years, -were taken to be final, and his name was not often mentioned by the -newspapers. - -One hundred and three years after his birth, the Nobel Prize was -awarded to Henry Talbot for his Warped Field Theory. The committee -decided not to look into the matter of discovering Dr. Talbot's heirs -until after the ceremony, expecting that someone would turn up to claim -the award in his name. - -Henry Talbot accepted the medallion and check himself from the hand of -the King of Sweden, making his acceptance speech in hurriedly learned -but understandable Swedish. The newspapers of the world devoured him -and made big news of the fact that he had been practically fired nine -years before. He was deluged with offers of employment, most of which -sought him as a public-relations man. He accepted the offer of the -Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His duties here -were non-existent. He would be paid, cared for. He was to think, as -much or as little as he pleased. The Institute was apologetic that -they had not been aware of his unemployment previously. He was invited -to stay with them for as long as he liked. Henry Talbot settled back -finally, in comfort. - -The research upon which he now embarked was so deep, so complex, -that he did not intend to come to any publishable conclusions in his -lifetime. He desired no experimentation now; he wanted only to think, -to think in purely mathematical terms of the universe as an entity. He -withdrew into the sanctity of his study, thankful to Princeton for the -peace and tranquility it offered. - -Several years later a notice of his death was published in the New York -<i>Times</i>. Henry did not read the New York <i>Times</i>, but the treasurer at -the Institute evidently did. His checks stopped coming. Henry did not -complain. He had saved a lot of money and his tastes were simple. He -did not have to pay a bootlegger's price in Princeton. - -In his hundred and eighty-first year, Henry first became seriously -aware of the possibility that he might not die. - -<tb> - -One night during his two hundred and forty-fifth year--it began to seem -to him purposeless, but he still kept accurate count--Henry pushed back -from his desk and sighed. - -Outside the window, in the gently falling snow, the campus of Princeton -looked exactly as it had when he had first come, but things were -different. No one now at the Institute knew him; he had known no one -there for seventy-five years now. Probably at no other place in the -country than at the Institute for Advanced Study could he have kept his -study for so long, could he have been left so alone. And it was good, -but now he was lonely. Lonely, bored by his solitude, aware of his -boredom and utter lack of friends. - -He had realized long ago the compensation demanded for eternity. When -he had first begun to think of the possibility that he might not die, -he had realized that it would mean leaving his friends, his family, and -continuing alone. When he had first begun to speculate on his seeming -immortality, how it had come about and why, he had known he would be -lonely. - -/P - This is the way to the Übermensch, - This is the way to the Übermensch, - This is the way to the Übermensch, - Not in a crowd, but alone. -P/ - -Nearly every great mind within the past hundred years had pointed out -the difficulty of man's accomplishing anything in his brief hundred -years of life, had pointed out the necessity of immortality to a great -mind. And what is necessary will be. But this is the way of evolution: -not in a crowd, but alone. One man in a million, then another, then -another. - -It was statistically improbable that he was the first. So there must be -others. But so far, in two hundred and forty-five years, he had not met -any that he knew of. Then again, there was no way of knowing. Anyone -passing him on the street would not know, and he meeting another would -not know. - -A purring broke through into his reverie and, looking down, he became -aware of Bucephalus, his cat, rubbing against his legs. He laughed, -bent down and picked her up. Here was the exception, of course. Old -Bucephalus. He laughed again, shaking his head in wonder. He had had -Bucephalus for the past hundred and fifty years. - -"Now what justification does a cat have for living forever?" he -wondered aloud, holding her at arm's length and smiling at her. She -lifted one paw and dabbed at his face. He put her down and went to get -her milk. "And how did we ever find each other?" Perhaps there was some -subliminal way of knowing. Perhaps, without knowing, the immortals knew. - -While Bucephalus lapped at her milk, Henry Talbot walked out for a -breath of air. He wandered off the campus, finally pausing in front -of a candy-and-soda store. He felt a vague curiosity and went in to -look at the newspapers. After reading through one, he stood back and -sighed. The same old thing, always the same old thing. The new wave -of immigrants--he looked again to see where they were from this time; -he didn't recognize the name of the place, but it didn't matter--the -new wave of immigrants was a disgrace to New York, was destroying -real estate values, was a burden to society, to the <i>last</i> wave of -immigrants who had by now made their place. The President said we would -fight, if necessary, one last war to make the world safe for democracy. -Statistics showed that juvenile delinquency was on the increase; it was -traced to a lack of parental authority in the home. - -Always the same old thing. - -Only his work was new, always changing. But now, after nearly a hundred -and fifty years of thought, he felt he was in over his head. It was -getting too abstract. He needed some good solid experimental research, -he felt. Something concrete, down-to-earth. He wanted to play with -a hundred-channel analyzer, measure some cross sections, determine -a beta-decay scheme. But he couldn't ask them here for a lab. He -didn't dare tell them who he was. Too much commotion, notoriety. The -newspapers again. Good God, no. - -He turned to go back to his study, and then stopped dead. He couldn't -go back there. His brain was spinning without a clamp; he needed to -fasten to something and orient himself in this vast universe. His -fingers itched to get at some experiment. He couldn't go back to his -study. - -He decided to take a vacation. He had never gotten as far as Miami -Beach, he remembered. The sun would feel good, and he could do with a -bit of a tan. - -He flew down that night. - -After he had checked in at the Sea Lion, and as he was following -the bellboy across the high and wide lobby to the elevator, a woman -crossed his path. In her late twenties, perhaps early thirties, she was -simply stunning. Dark hair, light skin, blue eyes almost purple with a -Eurasian slant to them, long firm legs and slim ankles. For the first -time in many a year, Henry stopped to look at a woman. - -The bellboy realized that he had walked on alone and returned to Talbot. - -"That woman is beautiful." Henry gestured toward her back. - -The bellboy smirked. Henry followed him to his room. - -<tb> - -Henry lay in the sun for two weeks and grew younger day by day. His -skin tanned, his muscles became hard with the exertion of lengthy -swims, the creases in his face smoothed out. Still he felt vaguely -dissatisfied, empty. He lay on the beach, gazing into the ocean, and -knew that something was missing. - -The woman he had seen that first night crossed between him and the -ocean and continued down the beach. Henry watched her out of sight. - -"That woman is beautiful," he thought. - -Sex, he thought. I wonder if that's what's missing. There was another -aspect to be considered, of course. Two hundred and forty-five. And -then a blonde young lady in a bikini wavered by him and he knew in that -moment that he could. - -He stood up and walked after her. - -"I wonder if I might walk a bit with you," he said. - -She looked him over carefully and then shrugged her shoulder, not quite -dislodging the upper portion of her suit. "Suitcha self." - -After a while she asked, "What business ya in?" - -"I'm sort of retired," he explained, finding her very charming and -refreshing to talk to. "I had a modest income a while ago. I invested -wisely, or prudently at least, and the interest has built up into quite -a fortune by now." - -"Really," she said. - -They walked down the beach, hand in hand. - -<tb> - -Five nights later he got out of bed when she fell asleep. He dressed -and walked despondently down to the lobby. This was not it, not it at -all. God, but her conversation was absolutely impossible. He couldn't -stay with her another minute. - -His problem was still unsolved. He wanted to get back to work, he -wanted company, he wanted <i>life</i> again. As he came into the lobby, the -woman of the first night passed by him again. She looked at him as she -came, and smiled as she passed. - -That, he thought, is a lovely woman. He stared at her back. How old -would you say she is? Late twenties, not a day over thirty. Yet with a -serenity in the eyes, in the smile somehow, that gives the impression -of lifetimes of living. Yet not a day over thirty, surely no older than -that. - -That, he thought, is what I need. A woman like that to sleep with and, -yes, to be with, even to talk with. She would not be like the one -upstairs. But, he thought, one does not buy a woman like that. One -marries her. Somehow, without knowing, he knew that. - -And why not? - -Why not, indeed? - -He returned to his own room, stripped and consulted the mirror. Dye his -hair, that was really all he needed. He smiled into the mirror. Forty, -he thought, even thirty-five. Certainly, with this tan and slim body -and his hair dyed, thirty-five at the most. - -He went to bed, happily making plans. A new life opened up for him. - -He would take a new name; he would live again. There was nothing to -stop him. - -That night, in the Sea Lion Hotel in Miami Beach, Henry Talbot died. - -<tb> - -Two months later Arnold Bottal, an experimental nuclear physicist of -perhaps thirty-five, and his charming wife--with exquisite, nearly -purple Eurasian eyes--joined the new country club in Lincoln Hills, New -York, where Bottal had newly joined the Applied Physics Division of the -Carbide Nuclear Company. - -This Arnold Bottal was not a brilliant physicist, but he was certainly -competent in his job. The company was satisfied with him. He and his -wife bought a bubble home in the suburbs of Lincoln Hills and, together -with their cat Bucephalus, lived happily ever after. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of East In The Morning, by David E. 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Fisher - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: East In The Morning - -Author: David E. Fisher - -Release Date: March 16, 2016 [EBook #51475] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EAST IN THE MORNING *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="394" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>East In the Morning</h1> - -<p>By DAVID E. FISHER</p> - -<p>Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine February 1960.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Natural laws are cliches—"what must be<br /> -must be," for instance—and what must be in<br /> -this case was, of all people, Dr. Talbot!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The first thirty years of Henry Talbot's life were the most promising. -He was a bright student through high school, and in college his fellow -students often used the word "brilliant" in discussing his mentality; -occasionally even his instructors echoed them.</p> - -<p>Upon receiving his bachelor's degree, he went to graduate school and -eventually received his Ph.D. as an experimental nuclear physicist. -He applied for and got a research position at Oak Ridge National -Laboratory, in the Electronuclear Research Division.</p> - -<p>Dr. Henry Talbot, brilliant young scientist, began his career -enthusiastically, and ran into a brick wall.</p> - -<p>Rather, he crawled up to and against it, for it took several years -for him to discover that his life's route lay not on an unobstructed -downhill slide. Those years slithered past before he looked up and -realized that he had not revolutionized the scientific world; he had -discovered no principle of relativity, no quantum theory.</p> - -<p>He stopped working for a moment and looked around. All his colleagues -were enthusiastic and brilliant young scientists. Where at school, -where throughout his life, he had been outstanding, now he was one -of the crowd. What had passed for brilliance before was now merely -competence.</p> - -<p>Henry Talbot felt a vague need which he perceived liquor might fill. -That afternoon he left work early for the first time since he had -arrived at Oak Ridge. He had to buy the vodka from a bootlegger, -Oak Ridge being in a dry county. But, as in most dry counties, that -presented no problem. He stopped by Shorty's cab stand, across the -street from the police department, and asked Shorty for a bottle. -Shorty reached into the glove compartment and, for fifty cents over -list price, the vodka changed hands. Henry didn't like to patronize the -bootleggers, but he did feel the need for a quick one just this once.</p> - -<p>After drinking for several hours in his apartment, Henry Talbot took -stock of himself and came to two conclusions:</p> - -<p>1. He was satisfied with himself and his life. He had always taken for -granted that he would one day be a famous figure in some scientific -field, true, but this was actually not so important as, upon casual -inspection, it might seem. He liked his work, otherwise he could never -have been so wrapped up in it, and he saw no reason for discontinuing -it or for becoming despondent over his lack of fame. After all, he -reasoned, he had never been famous and yet had been always perfectly -content.</p> - -<p>2. He liked vodka.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The next thirty years of Henry Talbot's life, now devoid of promise, -were fulfilling and content. He worked steadily and drank as the mood -fell upon him, publishing on the average one paper a year. These papers -were thorough, the experiments well worked out, without contrived -results or varnished sloppiness. The publications were accepted -everywhere as solid research papers.</p> - -<p>Henry Talbot's name became familiar in the nuclear field. He did not -find his face on the cover of <i>Time</i>, nor was he ever invited to -participate as an "expert" on any television quiz programs, yet he was -well known to nuclear researchers—at least those in his own country. -He was honored with a banquet on his fiftieth birthday. <i>Person to -Person</i> once tentatively proposed to visit him, but the idea was -squelched, a visit to a more buxom personality being substituted.</p> - -<p>Sex never reared its ugly head. He had not had time for it when young, -and so had never fallen into the habit.</p> - -<p>At the age of sixty-five he retired. He canceled his subscription to -the <i>Physical Review</i>, bought a fishing rod, subscribed to the <i>New -Yorker</i>, and tried Florida. He started at Tallahassee and fished his -way down to Ocala. By the time he had reached St. Petersburg, he had -decided to try California.</p> - -<p>In California he took up golf. He bought a hi-fi set and a dozen -progressive jazz records, advertised as unbreakable. They proved not to -be, although in fairness to the advertiser it must be said that Henry -Talbot had to exert himself.</p> - -<p>He decided to try a world cruise. He left the scheduled tour in Japan -and visited the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Tokyo, spending -some time there just generally chewing the bilingual rag. When he -returned to the United States, he renewed his subscription to the -<i>Physical Review</i>, canceled his subscription to the <i>New Yorker</i>, and -looked around for another position.</p> - -<p>He went to work for the Arnold Research Corporation on a part-time, -semi-retired basis. But he had his own lab, his hours were his own, and -in a few weeks he was working full time. No one was disturbed by this, -he did not apply for more money or recognition, he kept to himself, and -he began publishing his one paper each year.</p> - -<p>On the tenth year afterward his paper was missing, though not missed. -He began to spend less time in his lab and more in the library and -behind his desk, scribbling on scraps of paper or staring into space. -He was forgotten by the Arnold Research Corporation. He was content -with his books and his monthly check.</p> - -<p>In his seventy-fourth year, Henry Talbot published a paper in -the <i>Philosophical Magazine</i> on what he called the "Warped Field -Theory." The theory was entirely his own, from beginning to end, and -constituted—in his opinion—the first real breakthrough in theoretical -physics since Albert Einstein's little idea in 1905. The day the -article came out he sat behind his desk all day, puffing on his pipe, -not merely content but really happy for the first time in his life.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Life continued undisturbed for three more months. Then Larry Arnold, -Jr., came into his office, carrying a copy of the <i>Philosophical -Magazine</i>. Larry Arnold, Jr., was not a scientist but, as he put it, -he was scientifically minded and was general overseer, public relations -man, and coordinator of coordinators of research.</p> - -<p>He humphed a few times, groaned as he sat down across the desk from -Henry, wheezed twice, smiled once, and said, "Good morning, Dr. Talbot."</p> - -<p>"Good morning," Henry replied, folding his hands and trying to look -humble yet brilliant.</p> - -<p>"I read your article," Arnold said, feebly waving the magazine around -before him, "and I don't mind admitting I didn't understand a word -of it. Well, I'm not a man to hide his lack of knowledge so I went -right out and asked some of the men working here about it. They didn't -understand it either. I called up a few people around the country. -I—Dr. Talbot, I don't know how exactly to say this to you. I don't -know what you intended with this article, but it's got people laughing -at us and we can't have that."</p> - -<p>Henry kept the same humble look on his face; he fought to keep the same -expression. He didn't know what his face might look like if he relaxed -for a moment.</p> - -<p>"We didn't expect much research from you when we hired you. Well, we -know we're not paying you much, and we don't mind if you don't put out -much work. Hell, we don't care if you don't put out <i>any</i> work. We get -our money's worth in good will when people know we've got an old pro -like you on our payroll; the young kids can see we won't kick them out -when they're all used up. But when you put out papers like this one—" -and here he waved the magazine a bit more violently, getting warmed -up—"when you do this, and it says Arnold Research Corporation right -here under your name, people don't just laugh at you. They laugh at the -whole organization. They think that this whole place is going around -doing fantastic research like this—this warped field."</p> - -<p>He stopped when he saw the look slip a bit from Henry's face, and he -saw what was there beneath it. He dropped his eyes and wheezed twice, -then heaved his bulk out of the chair.</p> - -<p>"I didn't mean to slam into you that way, Dr. Talbot. You know it's -an honor to have you associated with the firm. We were even thinking -of giving you a testimonial banquet next week on your seventy-fifth -birthday.... It is next week, isn't it? Well, what I mean to say is—I -mean we all appreciate the good solid research you've been doing all -these years. It's just that—well, you won't fool around like this -any more, now will you? And we'll just forget all about it. No hard -feelings."</p> - -<p>He left quickly, and the door closed behind him.</p> - -<p>For the first time in seventy-five years, or in the last sixty-nine at -least, Henry Talbot cried.</p> - -<p>After he cried, he became angry. He wanted to shout, so he left the -office early and hurried to his apartment where he could shout without -disturbing anyone, which he did. He then took out the vodka, settled -Bucephalus, his cat, on his lap and began to pour.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Several hours later Henry Talbot sprawled in the armchair and took -stock of himself. He came to two conclusions:</p> - -<p>1. At his age, what did he care about fame? He knew his theory -was sound, and if the people in his own country didn't appreciate -it, what difference did it make? Now, free from rancor, he could -understand how they must have received his paper. They all knew old -Dr. Talbot—seventy-five and not dead yet. What a ridiculous age -for a nuclear physicist! Now he's turning theoretical, they must -have chuckled. So they started his paper. And when they came to the -first unorthodox assumption, when they reached the first of the many -mathematical complexities and indeed paradoxes, they must have closed -the magazine and had a good laugh over a cup of coffee.</p> - -<p>Had the article been written by some unknown twenty-five-year-old, they -would all hail him as a new genius. But coming from old Henry Talbot, -the article was ludicrous.</p> - -<p>Well, he didn't care. Abroad, he was not so well known. Some countries -would not have heard of him at all. They'd read the article seriously, -one or two men would understand it. They'd run some experiments to -confirm or deny the hypotheses and Henry was confident the experiments -would prove him right. He had only to wait. Of course he hadn't much -time left, but perhaps they would do it in a year or two, and perhaps -he'd still be here to see it and have the last laugh.</p> - -<p>2. He still liked vodka.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It was nineteen years before two Finnish physicists, Arkadt and -Findrun, ran the necessary experiments. Of the many who had read the -article, some knew Talbot and thus laughed it off, some could not -understand it and some understood it and waxed enthusiastic. Eventually -the enthusiasm spread to the Finnish Institute for Applied Research -where the essential equipment was available. The experiments were an -unqualified success.</p> - -<p>As soon as the experiments were confirmed, Arkadt sent a telegram to -Dr. Henry Talbot, in care of the address which had appeared with his -original article, informing him of the happy developments. He and -Findrun were still celebrating their spectacular success a week later, -this time with Dr. Arrhenial, director of the institute, when Arkadt -mentioned that he had sent such a telegram and had received as yet no -answer.</p> - -<p>Arrhenial smiled into his vodka. "Didn't you know? Talbot was -seventy-five years old when he wrote that article. I'm afraid you were -a little too late for him."</p> - -<p>"I didn't know," Arkadt replied.</p> - -<p>"A shame," Findrun murmured. "It would have made him so happy."</p> - -<p>The telephone rang and Arkadt answered it. His wife was calling, with -unusual news. He had just received a letter from America. Imagine that. -From a Henry Talbot.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Henry Talbot saw his face on the cover of <i>Time</i> magazine. He refused -a request to appear on a television quiz program. (The contestant -the network had had in mind to appear with Henry won his money -nevertheless, in the category Theoretical Physics, by correctly naming -the year in which Einstein first published his Theory of Relativity, -the number of papers which comprised the entire theory, the language -in which it was first published, the magazine in which it was first -published, the year in which the magazine was first printed, the -name of the first printer of the magazine, and the year in which he -died.) Henry Talbot was termed "The Dean of American Men of Science" -by the New York <i>Times</i>, which paper triumphantly reported that only -thirteen people in the world understood his Warped Field Theory. -When asked if there was now anything else for science to do, he -replied, "Indubitably." When pressed for more details, he said that -his housekeeper always removed his vodka from the refrigerator at -three-thirty, and that if he did not immediately return home, it would -become unbearably warm.</p> - -<p>On the occasion of his ninety-fifth birthday, he was given a gigantic -testimonial banquet by the Arnold Research Corporation, "under whose -auspices the entire research which culminated in the justly famous -Warped Field Theory was conducted."</p> - -<p>The next week, when he requested the use of their massive cyclotron to -run an experiment, he was told that the machine was in use at the time. -A week later, his request was again shunted off. This happened twice -more, and Henry went to see Larry Arnold, Jr.</p> - -<p>The coordinator was affable, and told Henry that he had checked -himself, and that unfortunately the machine was in use and that of -course since he, Talbot, was actually at the lab on only a part-time -basis, he could not expect to usurp the machine from full-time research -workers.</p> - -<p>Henry asked what kind of research was being done.</p> - -<p>Larry wheezed twice and told him it was investigating certain aspects -of the Warped Field Theory.</p> - -<p>"I invented the goddam theory and I can't even get at the machine?" -Henry shouted.</p> - -<p>"Please, Dr. Talbot. Let's be reasonable. You discovered that theory -twenty years ago. I mean, after all. You're an older man now, and -that's an expensive piece of machinery—"</p> - -<p>Henry slammed the door as he walked out, was not satisfied with the -effect, came back and slammed it again, this time shattering the glass. -He felt a little better, strode down the hall, and resigned the next -day, quietly and undramaticly.</p> - -<p>He disappeared into retirement. Reports of his death were printed -occasionally. They were never denied. They stopped after several years, -were taken to be final, and his name was not often mentioned by the -newspapers.</p> - -<p>One hundred and three years after his birth, the Nobel Prize was -awarded to Henry Talbot for his Warped Field Theory. The committee -decided not to look into the matter of discovering Dr. Talbot's heirs -until after the ceremony, expecting that someone would turn up to claim -the award in his name.</p> - -<p>Henry Talbot accepted the medallion and check himself from the hand of -the King of Sweden, making his acceptance speech in hurriedly learned -but understandable Swedish. The newspapers of the world devoured him -and made big news of the fact that he had been practically fired nine -years before. He was deluged with offers of employment, most of which -sought him as a public-relations man. He accepted the offer of the -Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His duties here -were non-existent. He would be paid, cared for. He was to think, as -much or as little as he pleased. The Institute was apologetic that -they had not been aware of his unemployment previously. He was invited -to stay with them for as long as he liked. Henry Talbot settled back -finally, in comfort.</p> - -<p>The research upon which he now embarked was so deep, so complex, -that he did not intend to come to any publishable conclusions in his -lifetime. He desired no experimentation now; he wanted only to think, -to think in purely mathematical terms of the universe as an entity. He -withdrew into the sanctity of his study, thankful to Princeton for the -peace and tranquility it offered.</p> - -<p>Several years later a notice of his death was published in the New York -<i>Times</i>. Henry did not read the New York <i>Times</i>, but the treasurer at -the Institute evidently did. His checks stopped coming. Henry did not -complain. He had saved a lot of money and his tastes were simple. He -did not have to pay a bootlegger's price in Princeton.</p> - -<p>In his hundred and eighty-first year, Henry first became seriously -aware of the possibility that he might not die.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>One night during his two hundred and forty-fifth year—it began to seem -to him purposeless, but he still kept accurate count—Henry pushed back -from his desk and sighed.</p> - -<p>Outside the window, in the gently falling snow, the campus of Princeton -looked exactly as it had when he had first come, but things were -different. No one now at the Institute knew him; he had known no one -there for seventy-five years now. Probably at no other place in the -country than at the Institute for Advanced Study could he have kept his -study for so long, could he have been left so alone. And it was good, -but now he was lonely. Lonely, bored by his solitude, aware of his -boredom and utter lack of friends.</p> - -<p>He had realized long ago the compensation demanded for eternity. When -he had first begun to think of the possibility that he might not die, -he had realized that it would mean leaving his friends, his family, and -continuing alone. When he had first begun to speculate on his seeming -immortality, how it had come about and why, he had known he would be -lonely.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">This is the way to the Übermensch,</div> - <div class="verse">This is the way to the Übermensch,</div> - <div class="verse">This is the way to the Übermensch,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Not in a crowd, but alone.</div> -</div></div> - -<p>Nearly every great mind within the past hundred years had pointed out -the difficulty of man's accomplishing anything in his brief hundred -years of life, had pointed out the necessity of immortality to a great -mind. And what is necessary will be. But this is the way of evolution: -not in a crowd, but alone. One man in a million, then another, then -another.</p> - -<p>It was statistically improbable that he was the first. So there must be -others. But so far, in two hundred and forty-five years, he had not met -any that he knew of. Then again, there was no way of knowing. Anyone -passing him on the street would not know, and he meeting another would -not know.</p> - -<p>A purring broke through into his reverie and, looking down, he became -aware of Bucephalus, his cat, rubbing against his legs. He laughed, -bent down and picked her up. Here was the exception, of course. Old -Bucephalus. He laughed again, shaking his head in wonder. He had had -Bucephalus for the past hundred and fifty years.</p> - -<p>"Now what justification does a cat have for living forever?" he -wondered aloud, holding her at arm's length and smiling at her. She -lifted one paw and dabbed at his face. He put her down and went to get -her milk. "And how did we ever find each other?" Perhaps there was some -subliminal way of knowing. Perhaps, without knowing, the immortals knew.</p> - -<p>While Bucephalus lapped at her milk, Henry Talbot walked out for a -breath of air. He wandered off the campus, finally pausing in front -of a candy-and-soda store. He felt a vague curiosity and went in to -look at the newspapers. After reading through one, he stood back and -sighed. The same old thing, always the same old thing. The new wave -of immigrants—he looked again to see where they were from this time; -he didn't recognize the name of the place, but it didn't matter—the -new wave of immigrants was a disgrace to New York, was destroying -real estate values, was a burden to society, to the <i>last</i> wave of -immigrants who had by now made their place. The President said we would -fight, if necessary, one last war to make the world safe for democracy. -Statistics showed that juvenile delinquency was on the increase; it was -traced to a lack of parental authority in the home.</p> - -<p>Always the same old thing.</p> - -<p>Only his work was new, always changing. But now, after nearly a hundred -and fifty years of thought, he felt he was in over his head. It was -getting too abstract. He needed some good solid experimental research, -he felt. Something concrete, down-to-earth. He wanted to play with -a hundred-channel analyzer, measure some cross sections, determine -a beta-decay scheme. But he couldn't ask them here for a lab. He -didn't dare tell them who he was. Too much commotion, notoriety. The -newspapers again. Good God, no.</p> - -<p>He turned to go back to his study, and then stopped dead. He couldn't -go back there. His brain was spinning without a clamp; he needed to -fasten to something and orient himself in this vast universe. His -fingers itched to get at some experiment. He couldn't go back to his -study.</p> - -<p>He decided to take a vacation. He had never gotten as far as Miami -Beach, he remembered. The sun would feel good, and he could do with a -bit of a tan.</p> - -<p>He flew down that night.</p> - -<p>After he had checked in at the Sea Lion, and as he was following -the bellboy across the high and wide lobby to the elevator, a woman -crossed his path. In her late twenties, perhaps early thirties, she was -simply stunning. Dark hair, light skin, blue eyes almost purple with a -Eurasian slant to them, long firm legs and slim ankles. For the first -time in many a year, Henry stopped to look at a woman.</p> - -<p>The bellboy realized that he had walked on alone and returned to Talbot.</p> - -<p>"That woman is beautiful." Henry gestured toward her back.</p> - -<p>The bellboy smirked. Henry followed him to his room.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Henry lay in the sun for two weeks and grew younger day by day. His -skin tanned, his muscles became hard with the exertion of lengthy -swims, the creases in his face smoothed out. Still he felt vaguely -dissatisfied, empty. He lay on the beach, gazing into the ocean, and -knew that something was missing.</p> - -<p>The woman he had seen that first night crossed between him and the -ocean and continued down the beach. Henry watched her out of sight.</p> - -<p>"That woman is beautiful," he thought.</p> - -<p>Sex, he thought. I wonder if that's what's missing. There was another -aspect to be considered, of course. Two hundred and forty-five. And -then a blonde young lady in a bikini wavered by him and he knew in that -moment that he could.</p> - -<p>He stood up and walked after her.</p> - -<p>"I wonder if I might walk a bit with you," he said.</p> - -<p>She looked him over carefully and then shrugged her shoulder, not quite -dislodging the upper portion of her suit. "Suitcha self."</p> - -<p>After a while she asked, "What business ya in?"</p> - -<p>"I'm sort of retired," he explained, finding her very charming and -refreshing to talk to. "I had a modest income a while ago. I invested -wisely, or prudently at least, and the interest has built up into quite -a fortune by now."</p> - -<p>"Really," she said.</p> - -<p>They walked down the beach, hand in hand.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Five nights later he got out of bed when she fell asleep. He dressed -and walked despondently down to the lobby. This was not it, not it at -all. God, but her conversation was absolutely impossible. He couldn't -stay with her another minute.</p> - -<p>His problem was still unsolved. He wanted to get back to work, he -wanted company, he wanted <i>life</i> again. As he came into the lobby, the -woman of the first night passed by him again. She looked at him as she -came, and smiled as she passed.</p> - -<p>That, he thought, is a lovely woman. He stared at her back. How old -would you say she is? Late twenties, not a day over thirty. Yet with a -serenity in the eyes, in the smile somehow, that gives the impression -of lifetimes of living. Yet not a day over thirty, surely no older than -that.</p> - -<p>That, he thought, is what I need. A woman like that to sleep with and, -yes, to be with, even to talk with. She would not be like the one -upstairs. But, he thought, one does not buy a woman like that. One -marries her. Somehow, without knowing, he knew that.</p> - -<p>And why not?</p> - -<p>Why not, indeed?</p> - -<p>He returned to his own room, stripped and consulted the mirror. Dye his -hair, that was really all he needed. He smiled into the mirror. Forty, -he thought, even thirty-five. Certainly, with this tan and slim body -and his hair dyed, thirty-five at the most.</p> - -<p>He went to bed, happily making plans. A new life opened up for him.</p> - -<p>He would take a new name; he would live again. There was nothing to -stop him.</p> - -<p>That night, in the Sea Lion Hotel in Miami Beach, Henry Talbot died.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Two months later Arnold Bottal, an experimental nuclear physicist of -perhaps thirty-five, and his charming wife—with exquisite, nearly -purple Eurasian eyes—joined the new country club in Lincoln Hills, New -York, where Bottal had newly joined the Applied Physics Division of the -Carbide Nuclear Company.</p> - -<p>This Arnold Bottal was not a brilliant physicist, but he was certainly -competent in his job. The company was satisfied with him. 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