When Worldviews, Once Apart, Do Kaleid

When Worldviews, Once Apart, Kaleid by J.B. Pravda

Ensconced, now, in the bowels of his laboratory, for what had certainly
been two weeks at minimum, but, to Herr Doktor Heinrich Schmaltz, a
relative few blinks of his troubled eyes------he had, he was certain,
achieved a major breakthrough, one which would distinguish him in the
field of 'Optiks', as Dr. Newton had termed it.

Finally, he mused, Blake's 'doors of perception' would be
cleansed-----a way of perceiving unknown to the reductionists'
microscope or the stargazers' opposite instrumentation.

His discovery would finally represent so-called 'Reality', not as the
inchoate and oft-fooled human eye saw it, but, as it more likely
was-----a churning sea of wave energy consisting only of possible
matter itself.

At last the day had come: his nomination by admiring graduate students
was before the Nobel Committee which had, to his amazement, awarded him
a prize.

As the King's representative recited the traditional appellation of his
stature, Dr. Schmaltz openly wept, his usually blurred eyes now even
more so----"Herr Doktor, of the noble Swedish house of Kaleid, your
capacious mind is truly of, if you will pardon the expression at this
so august an occasion, of great imaginative Scope!"