# Professor Aloys Foulcault-Oeg — Short Fiction character guide

> Professor Aloys Foulcault-Oeg in Short Fiction by R. A. Lafferty.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Aloys, Professor Aloys, Oeg

**First appearance:** 0010-aloys

## Snapshot

A terrified, ragamuffin professor who disintegrates in a cloakroom and reemerges as a panther-sure orator commanding a spellbound hall for three and a half hours.

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [Aloys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_45_se/chapters/aloys)

The protagonist, a brilliant but impoverished scholar who receives a great award and delivers a stunning speech despite his initial terror.

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