The Diamond Lens
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Average rating2.3
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Ratings2
Average rating2.3
FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me by drilling in a disk of copper a small hole in which a drop of pure water was sustained by capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying some fifty diameters, presented, it is true, only indistinct and imperfect forms, but still sufficiently wonderful to work up my imagination to a preternatural state of excitement.
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Normally I find something of interest in these older stories, but I'm unsure there is anything to find here. A quick read of a man who slowly goes mad with obsession. I guess a proto-mad scientist story. I was intrigued by the premise, but it kind of fell flat for me in the end.
This is a short story written in 1858 about a mad scientist that is obssessed with the micro world he discovers in his microscope
The story is narrated in the 1st person and tells the story of a man who is driven to obsession with what her discovers to the point of crimes of passion in his pursuit of learning.
I found this story to have a focus on the encentricities of a mad scientist and obsession. HIs reclusiveness and how he manages to entrap his self in the world he discovered whether in his own mind or a reality of the world of the story we shall let the reader determine
not much else I can say without spoiling the story but overall I found it to be good read and I found myself really wanting to follow the story and see where his obsession takes him.
The biggest drawback being that as a short story it has so much potential to evolve into a longer book of novel lenght, overall 3.5/5 stars for me
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