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What is Mr. Fotheringay's discovery, and how does he test it initially?
Mr. Fotheringay discovers he can make things levitate by willing them to do so. He tests this by trying to lift a candle with his will, but it falls and breaks.
Study Notes
- George McWhirter Fotheringay was a sceptic who did not believe in miraculous powers until he was thirty.
- He was a clerk at Gomshott's and had a hot brown eyes, erect red hair, a moustache with ends that he twisted up, and freckles.
- Fotheringay was greatly addicted to assertive argument and argued about the impossibility of miracles at a bar with some other people.
- He defined a miracle as something contrariwise to the course of nature done by power of will, something that couldn't happen without being specially willed.
- He made a rhetorical effort to prove his point by asking if a lamp could burn like that upsy-down without being specially willed.
- Suddenly, the lamp hung inverted in the air, burning quietly with its flame pointing down, which was visible to everyone present.
- Fotheringay was astonished beyond measure at the thing that had occurred.
- Everyone accused Fotheringay of a silly trick, and presented him to himself as a foolish destroyer of comfort and security.
- He went home flushed and heated, coat-collar crumpled, eyes smarting and ears red.
- He was only able to seriously grapple with his memories of the occurrence when he found himself alone in his little bed-room in Church Row.
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