那个人在想什


么事情

The main character is Dr . Max Hol st, a succes  s ful ne urosurgeon. One day a
n intense little  man named Steinmet z

 show
s up, who has the real abil
ity to create ob jects out of thin ai
r, using only h  is mind. As no  one  b elieves him at first, he is held at a  war d for mental patients, but m anif
ests th e key to his door and esca
pes
. As
 he has a special intere 
st in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequen  t ly i
nvites H

olst t o his 
large m ansion
, which is full of expensive p
 aintings and sculptures, and  pro
ves to him t  hat he ca n in


fact mat erialis
 e  objects
. Steinmetz ’s  abilities   are ev
olv ing by leaps and bounds, and  is progressing from being able to  create
 objects only to
being a
ble to
c reate living thing
s. His ultimate ambition is to be able t
 o create a human b eing. He tells Dr. Holst tha t if he wi ll only
 perform a
 certain brain o
peration on  him, Steinmetz will be  come able 
to a
ttai n  h is goal. He
’s got all 
the necessary equipment set up  i n his bas ement .
 Dr. Holst, however, is too s pooked 
b
y  the whole thing to agree to this mad s
cheme, and refuses. Ste inmetz the
n  sets about manipulat

ing Holst’s life,  to pre

 ss ure him into performing the operation. By the n Steinmetz has become able 
to create a temporary human bein g, a
nd in the hope
that he can perhaps
 ma 
ke his  own creation perfor
m t

he operation, he manif
ests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. Th
is  d  ouble procee
ds to take over Dr. Hols
t’s life, creating   
c
h
aos for him prof ess
ionally
 and personally. And then Dr. Hol st sta rts fi
ghti
ng back. The ending 
has the dual virtue 
of  be
in
g both unexpected and s
atisfying.