تجربة البروفيسور

by Edward Page Mitchell, إدوارد بيدج ميتشل

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About the author

"Edward Page Mitchell (1852–1927) was an American editorial and short story writer for The Sun, a daily newspaper in New York City. He became that newspaper's editor in 1897, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana. Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre. Mitchell wrote fiction about a man rendered invisible by scientific means ("The Crystal Man", published in 1881) before H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man, wrote about a time-travel machine ("The Clock that Went Backward") before Wells's The Time Machine, wrote about faster-than-light travel ("The Tachypomp"; now perhaps his best-known work) in 1874, a thinking computer and a cyborg in 1879 ("The Ablest Man in the World"), and also wrote the earliest known stories about matter transmission or teleportation ("The Man without a Body", 1877) and a superior mutant ("Old Squids and Little Speller"). "Exchanging Their Souls" (1877) is one of the earliest fictional accounts of mind transfer. Mitchell retired in 1926, a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage.

The gradual rediscovery of Mitchell and his work is a direct result of the publication in 1973 of a book-length anthology of his stories, compiled by Sam Moskowitz with a detailed introduction by Moskowitz giving much information about Mitchell's personal life. Because Mitchell's stories were not by-lined on original publication, nor indexed, Moskowitz expended major effort to track down and collect these works by an author whom Moskowitz cited as "the lost giant of American science fiction".

Mitchell's stories show the strong influence of Edgar Allan Poe. Among other traits, Mitchell shares Poe's habit of giving a basically serious and dignified fictional character a jokey name, such as "Professor Dummkopf" in Mitchell's "The Man Without a Body". Since Mitchell's fictions were originally published in newspapers, typeset in the same format as news articles and not identified as fiction, he may possibly have used this device to signal to his readers that this text should not be taken seriously."

-- Wikipedia

Reviews

[طالب . · Rating 4 out of 5]

ليس للإنسان إلا تجرربته فليجربها بدلا من التجريب في غيره وإلهامه يمثله لا يمثل غيره ولن أصبح في يوم أنت ولست أنت في يوم ستصبح أنا
وقد لا تتغير الأمور المأمل أنها تتغير حتى لو تغيرت غالبية الأشياء فقد يبقى ما يبقى بإرادة الباقي الذي لا يموت سبحانه وتعالى

[Lawrence William · Rating 5 out of 5]

بالمصري الفصيح
فتَّح مخك

[Forked Radish · Rating 5 out of 5]

"The Professor's Experiment": Surprisingly good, like barnacle soup!
Quotes can tell the story better than I:
The priest:
“No man … who denies the objective verity of knowledge from derived from intuition or otherwise by subjective methods—no man who pushes noumena aside in his impetuous pursuit of phenomena can make a safe husband for my child.”
The suitor:
“What a fool I am to love you! I might as well love a memory, a thought, a dream, a mathematical formula, a rule of syntax, or anything else that lacks objective evidence.”
“Heaven bless you when your father finally marries you to a syllogism!”
Later:
“My consciousness leapt back as far as the thirteenth century before christ and as far as the fortieth century yet to come.”
Even later:
“Hang science!”
Note: Ed. underlined

[Mahmoud Moftah · Rating 3 out of 5]

يقدم لك الكاتب في تلك القصه القصيره نصيحه مفادها (لا تكن مُتحِجر الفكر وكُن مرناً) تلك الجُمله هي أبسط ما قد يلخِص ويُمثِل المضمون هُنا وكما قال "برتراند راسِل" ..

(لستُ مستعداً للموت من أجل أفكاري لأني ببسَاطه رُبما أكون مُخطِئاً)

تلك القصَه من أجمل وأكمل ما كتب الكاتب ؛ كأنها مُعادله إحتوت علي القدر الكافي من الفلسفه والعِلم والدراما فكانت المتعَه هي النتيجه.