Professor Aloys Foulcault-Oeg

Aloys Foulcault-Oeg is a man of vast theoretical ambition and almost no social courage, cowering before the great scientists he is meant to address. A mysterious gentleman—actually Willy McGilly in disguise—ushers him into a small room, where he gobbles, sniffles, and forgets his English entirely. What emerges is a nineteen-point outline of cosmic, mathematical, and metaphysical wonders, and a transformed speaker whose soft rumble silences the hall before he even begins.