NONSUCH 



half inches in diameter and they have been reported 

 to grow as large as a hen's egg. The ease of collec- 

 tion of this and related sea-bottles and the extraor- 

 dinary size of these single cells, has led to the de- 

 tailed study of the effects of electricity and various 

 chemical compounds and elements upon them — ex- 

 perimentation which may conceivably lead to bet- 

 ter knowledge of cellular health and disease in the 

 human body. 



And now for two exciting sequences : I published 

 this chapter in the Atlantic Monthly, and at once 

 had a telephone from a Great Physicist, who is also 

 to me a Best Friend. 



" Ho ! Ho ! " said he, " at last I have caught you in 

 an honest error. I believe you thought you saw, but 

 you could not possibly have seen, a rainbow which 

 began at your very side, and yet which arched away 

 into a curve overhead. Optics say impossible. I will 

 tell you about it when I see you." 



A week later the G. P. who was also the B. F. 

 lunched with me, and when pencils gave out, we 

 used forks on the tablecloth, much to the waiter's 

 anguish and my confusion, for by this time the G. P. 

 had worked himself into a fever heat of joy, because 

 he had discovered that I probably did see what I 

 wrote, explicable only by a little known kink of phy- 

 sics, a kink whose mathematical formulas left me 

 hopelessly stranded. It will be published in some 

 suitable place, and I shall then point with pride to 

 the proof of my experience, but in this world I shall 

 never exactly understand it. 



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