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Professor Challenger #5
آلة التفكيك
مُغامرةٌ عِلميةٌ أُخرى مِن مُغامَراتِ البروفيسور تشالنجر، ذلك الرَّجلِ المَهيب، الحادِّ المِزاج، أَعظمِ عُلماءِ عَصرِه، الذي يَتصدَّى لمَهمَّةِ الوُقوفِ على حقيقةِ آلةٍ عجيبة، يَزعُمُ مُخترِعُها أنَّها تستطيعُ تفكيكَ أيِّ شيء � بما في ذلك البشر � مُحِيلةً إيَّاه إلى ذرَّاتٍ مُتناثِرةٍ غيرِ مرئية، ويُمكنُها كذلك أن تُعيدَ تجميعَهُ مِن جديدٍ ليَعودَ سِيرتَهُ الأُولى. وعبْرَ أحداثٍ مليئةٍ بالإثارةِ والتَّشويق، نُرافقُ البروفيسور في سَعيِه الحَثِيث، ليس لِكشْفِ السرِّ فقط، بل أيضًا للحَيْلولةِ دُونَ استغلالِ الاختراعِ كآلةِ حربٍ ودمارٍ شامل.
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20 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 1929
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Arthur Conan Doyle
11kbooks23.6kfollowersSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.
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September 6, 2023
Well my journey through Professor Challenger complete with this book, #5 The Disintegration Machine. It has been a steadily down-hill journey from the splendour of The Lost World to the, if I am honest, mediocrity of the last three.
Not helped by the fact some are only a few pages long, which is hardly enough to set up a good premise, the last three lack any real commitment.
The disintegration machine tells us about a Latvian scientist in London (good idea to choose a foreign scientist) who has designed a machine which will dissolve an item (person, army, or warship, for example) and then allow them to be reassembled at a later time. Theodore Nemor the scientist has already sold the secret to the highest bidder - a European country is all we are told - and the professor and Malone (the reporter from all the earlier adventures) are to interview Nemor and have the machine demonstrated to prove the truth of it.
I won't spoil beyond this - it is only a short skip to the end, but for me at lease, it was fairly unrewarding.
2 stars
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Previous in the series
The Lost World (#1)
The Poison Belt (#2)
The Land of Mist (#3)
When the World Screamed (#4)
Not helped by the fact some are only a few pages long, which is hardly enough to set up a good premise, the last three lack any real commitment.
The disintegration machine tells us about a Latvian scientist in London (good idea to choose a foreign scientist) who has designed a machine which will dissolve an item (person, army, or warship, for example) and then allow them to be reassembled at a later time. Theodore Nemor the scientist has already sold the secret to the highest bidder - a European country is all we are told - and the professor and Malone (the reporter from all the earlier adventures) are to interview Nemor and have the machine demonstrated to prove the truth of it.
I won't spoil beyond this - it is only a short skip to the end, but for me at lease, it was fairly unrewarding.
2 stars
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Previous in the series
The Lost World (#1)
The Poison Belt (#2)
The Land of Mist (#3)
When the World Screamed (#4)
July 31, 2022
I originally posted the review below on 15 September 2019, but I've just realised I posted it on the wrong place in this site (against an edition that incorporates another short story, that I haven't read). D'oh! I've copied my 2019 review below.
A short story that I listened to on audiobook. The audio version lasts for only 27 minutes.
I normally think of Conan Doyle as a Victorian writer, but this story was published in 1929, a year before his death. It’s the last in the “Professor Challenger� series. Of those I had only previously read one, that being The Lost World, in which he first appeared. Challenger is as irascible and pugnacious as he was in that earlier book, and like The Lost World, this story also features the journalist Malone.
This one features a Latvian scientist, living in London, who invents a machine capable of destroying anything within its sphere of operation.
Average story, corny ending.
A short story that I listened to on audiobook. The audio version lasts for only 27 minutes.
I normally think of Conan Doyle as a Victorian writer, but this story was published in 1929, a year before his death. It’s the last in the “Professor Challenger� series. Of those I had only previously read one, that being The Lost World, in which he first appeared. Challenger is as irascible and pugnacious as he was in that earlier book, and like The Lost World, this story also features the journalist Malone.
This one features a Latvian scientist, living in London, who invents a machine capable of destroying anything within its sphere of operation.
Average story, corny ending.
April 7, 2020
آلة التفكيك
قصة قصيرة للسير آرثر كونان دويل من مغامرات البروفيسور تشالننجر
حيث يذهب في مغامرة مع صحفي محلي للتاكد من حقيقة إدعاء أحدهم
اختراعه لآلة قادرة علي تفكيك أي شيء محولة إياه إلي ذرت غير مرئية ويمكنها أن تعيد تجميعه من جديد
تكمن خطورتها في تطبيقياتها العسكرية وتأثيرها في الحرب الشاملة إذا ما بيعت لحكومة واحدة بشكل حصري
بدون أسئلة فلسفية عن حول أخلاقية تطبيق القانون بشكل استباقي يقوم البروفيسور بالحيلولة دون كل ذلك.
الترجمة العربية ممتازة
May 10, 2018
لطالما عرفت لبنى ككاتبة وهذه هي المرة الأولى التي أعرفها كمترجمة
لقد أبدعت في نقل هذا النص القصير للعربية ، أسلوبها في الترجمة جميل ومميز وأتمنى أن تستمر في هذا الطريق
April 30, 2013
A short novel from the Challenger series, I read it just after The Land of the mist (which I hated) and it was like finding sunshine after several months in the dark, but it is probably just all right.
April 27, 2022
A really good story with a great twist at the end.
November 3, 2016
The final appearance of Professor Challenger fizzles in an awkward, rushed story written near the end of Doyle's life when he was consumed with the supernatural. In the story, Challenger and Malone encounter a mad scientist who has created a machine that disintegrates matter, causing invisibility and even the rearrangement of matter, and has sold the machine to a devious foreign nation. This story is nothing more than Doyle's attempt to sketch out the possibility that such a machine could exist.
In the same year, he published (which I also happen to be reading now), in which he makes the ludicrous claim that his friend Houdini may have had the very same power -- to transport his body through solid matter and across space -- even though Houdini kept telling Doyle that it was all illusion and trickery. Doyle also claims that such a thing may be possible because what we call solid mass might be like a projection on the screen of the "ether." (I'll be writing a full review of that loony book as soon as I finish it.) Since this story was published the same year as The Edge of the Unknown, it seems that Doyle was just trotting out Challenger one more time to explore this fringe belief. It was an odd end for one of the oddest characters in fiction.
The conclusion, which I won't spoil, is comic and absurd. I'm sure that was Doyle's intension, even though it ultimately ends up being at Doyle's own expense. I enjoyed the story, despite (or maybe because) of how bad it was.
In the same year, he published (which I also happen to be reading now), in which he makes the ludicrous claim that his friend Houdini may have had the very same power -- to transport his body through solid matter and across space -- even though Houdini kept telling Doyle that it was all illusion and trickery. Doyle also claims that such a thing may be possible because what we call solid mass might be like a projection on the screen of the "ether." (I'll be writing a full review of that loony book as soon as I finish it.) Since this story was published the same year as The Edge of the Unknown, it seems that Doyle was just trotting out Challenger one more time to explore this fringe belief. It was an odd end for one of the oddest characters in fiction.
The conclusion, which I won't spoil, is comic and absurd. I'm sure that was Doyle's intension, even though it ultimately ends up being at Doyle's own expense. I enjoyed the story, despite (or maybe because) of how bad it was.
June 25, 2017
There's nothing really profound here for a modern sci-fi reader but it does pack in a lot for such a short story - a machine that can disintegrate anything, the imagined horror of what such a machine could be used for if in the wrong hands, and the death of one man to save millions. All themes and ideas that have been explored in more detail in other works, but for such a quick read, it was worth the time.
April 17, 2024
يدعي أحد المخترعين نجاحه في صناعة آلة تعمل على تفكيك الأشخاص الى جزئيات تسري عبر الكون ، فيضطر الصحفي مالون الى مرافقة البروفيسور تشالنجر للتحقق من صحة الأمر...
و لكن يقرر هذا الصحفي، فور التأكد من فعالية الآلة، ضرورة الحيلولة دون بيع هذا الاختراع لأحد الدول الساعية للحروب و ذلك بالتخلص من المخترع نفسه !!
رحلة قصيرة توضح الإستغلال المادي و السياسي للعلم
و لكن يقرر هذا الصحفي، فور التأكد من فعالية الآلة، ضرورة الحيلولة دون بيع هذا الاختراع لأحد الدول الساعية للحروب و ذلك بالتخلص من المخترع نفسه !!
رحلة قصيرة توضح الإستغلال المادي و السياسي للعلم
July 14, 2023
ويبقى السؤال عن ماهية الحدود التي يجب رسمها للاكتشافات والبحث العلمي قائماً...
حيث أن لكل معرفة أوجه متوحشة قد تستخدم بالدمار، وأوجه لطيفة قد تستخدم في احياء واثراء الإنسان...
ومن هنا وبصفتي طالب قانون أسأل عن مدى مسؤولية كل من العالِم والمستثمر والدول، في كل اكتشاف او اختراع تم استخدامه في قتل البشر وتدمير السلام، ما مدى المسؤولية القانونية الملقاة على عاتق كل شريك او مساهم في هذا، وماهي الحدود القانونية التي يجب ان تقيد وتشكم ماسبق للحفاظ على حرية و سلام الشعوب...
أظن أن الجواب سيكون لاحدود، فمن البديهي في فقه القانون الدولي أن لا إلزام لدولة صاحبة سيادة في أي شيء، لأن الزام الدول الوحيد ارادتها الخاصة...
فما العمل في هذه الحالة عند اجتماع عالم مجنون ودولة متعطشة للدماء -في اكتشاف علمي واحد-؟
حيث أن لكل معرفة أوجه متوحشة قد تستخدم بالدمار، وأوجه لطيفة قد تستخدم في احياء واثراء الإنسان...
ومن هنا وبصفتي طالب قانون أسأل عن مدى مسؤولية كل من العالِم والمستثمر والدول، في كل اكتشاف او اختراع تم استخدامه في قتل البشر وتدمير السلام، ما مدى المسؤولية القانونية الملقاة على عاتق كل شريك او مساهم في هذا، وماهي الحدود القانونية التي يجب ان تقيد وتشكم ماسبق للحفاظ على حرية و سلام الشعوب...
أظن أن الجواب سيكون لاحدود، فمن البديهي في فقه القانون الدولي أن لا إلزام لدولة صاحبة سيادة في أي شيء، لأن الزام الدول الوحيد ارادتها الخاصة...
فما العمل في هذه الحالة عند اجتماع عالم مجنون ودولة متعطشة للدماء -في اكتشاف علمي واحد-؟
April 22, 2013
From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's indomitable academic must investigate dastardly Latvian scientist Theodore Nemor. Stars Bill Paterson.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's indomitable academic must investigate dastardly Latvian scientist Theodore Nemor. Stars Bill Paterson.
May 14, 2013
Another Professor Challenger experience, here he and his reporter friend Malone meet inventor Nemor...
November 29, 2013
"The first duty of the law-abiding citizen is to prevent murder."
ethical debate: kill a man to save the world...
ethical debate: kill a man to save the world...
August 9, 2017
This is the fifth and final story featuring Professor Challenger and his journalist friend (and narrator of the stories) Malone. Like 'When the World Screamed' this is only a short story as opposed to anything longer- indeed, this one is really short.
Malone is asked to take Challenger along to meet Latvian scientist Theodore Nemor who claims to have invented a machine that can disintegrate objects and re-assemble them if required. As usual, Challenger is sceptical about the idea and is proved wrong. Obviously such a machine would have a huge influence on the world, particularly if sold as a weapon but what will Challenger do about it?
From a modern perspective the sort of machine in this story is a staple of science-fiction, it's pretty much the same as transportation in Star Trek- but I guess in 1929 it would have been a more fantastical idea. It's well done here and given an almost magical feel that Doyle was so good at achieving in the Challenger stories.
The highlight of this story is Challenger himself. He's an eccentric lunatic most of the time in the stories but every now and then you realise that he is of course a genius too. He's hilarious on the phone at the start of this story and does something remarkable at the end. Doyle is always lauded for the great character of Sherlock Holmes but Professor Challenger is also fantastic.
I'm sad this is the last Challenger story as there was lots of potential for more but it's a strong way for the character to go out.
Malone is asked to take Challenger along to meet Latvian scientist Theodore Nemor who claims to have invented a machine that can disintegrate objects and re-assemble them if required. As usual, Challenger is sceptical about the idea and is proved wrong. Obviously such a machine would have a huge influence on the world, particularly if sold as a weapon but what will Challenger do about it?
From a modern perspective the sort of machine in this story is a staple of science-fiction, it's pretty much the same as transportation in Star Trek- but I guess in 1929 it would have been a more fantastical idea. It's well done here and given an almost magical feel that Doyle was so good at achieving in the Challenger stories.
The highlight of this story is Challenger himself. He's an eccentric lunatic most of the time in the stories but every now and then you realise that he is of course a genius too. He's hilarious on the phone at the start of this story and does something remarkable at the end. Doyle is always lauded for the great character of Sherlock Holmes but Professor Challenger is also fantastic.
I'm sad this is the last Challenger story as there was lots of potential for more but it's a strong way for the character to go out.
October 27, 2024
This is the fifth, final installment of works of about Professor Challenger. This is a short story, formally unlinked to other works. A Latvian inventor Theodore Nemor, currently in England, announced that he has created a machine that is capable of disintegrating any object placed within its sphere of influence. This seems an ultimate weapon if true.
Challenger and journalist-narrator Mallone visit the inventor. They observe that the man supposedly preliminary agreed to sell his inventions to the Soviets: “I caught a glimpse of them through the half-opened door, and had a passing impression of prosperous and intelligent men, with astrakhan collars to their coats, glistening top-hats, and every appearance of that bourgeois well-being which the successful Communist so readily assumes.�
They check the machine and it appears not only to disintegrate, but operate a bit like Star Trek transportation beams � turning anything into a particle field that can be restored to the previous form, or even partially restored (the inventor plays a nasty trick with the professor). So, the danger is real and Challenger solves the issue not as a high-brow genius he is� overall an average SF-flavored story from the 1920s-30s.
Challenger and journalist-narrator Mallone visit the inventor. They observe that the man supposedly preliminary agreed to sell his inventions to the Soviets: “I caught a glimpse of them through the half-opened door, and had a passing impression of prosperous and intelligent men, with astrakhan collars to their coats, glistening top-hats, and every appearance of that bourgeois well-being which the successful Communist so readily assumes.�
They check the machine and it appears not only to disintegrate, but operate a bit like Star Trek transportation beams � turning anything into a particle field that can be restored to the previous form, or even partially restored (the inventor plays a nasty trick with the professor). So, the danger is real and Challenger solves the issue not as a high-brow genius he is� overall an average SF-flavored story from the 1920s-30s.
August 18, 2023
An inventor has discovered a disintegrator, i.e. something that breaks down anything or anyone into smallest components. It can also reassemble said components, even with a tweak here and there. Such outrageous claims have to be verified. Journalist Malone and Professor Challenger pay him a visit.
What happens thereafter?
This compact and absolutely unputdownable tale is probably the best possible swansong that Professor Challenger could have had. It's hilarious, exhilarating, and has a neat ending that can act as a model for modern thriller-writers.
Highly recommended.
What happens thereafter?
This compact and absolutely unputdownable tale is probably the best possible swansong that Professor Challenger could have had. It's hilarious, exhilarating, and has a neat ending that can act as a model for modern thriller-writers.
Highly recommended.
June 22, 2017
Humorous short story about a man who created a machine that can disintegrate almost anything. Nice ending. Could only find one quote due to the shortness of the book.
"You cannot explain one incredible thing by quoting another incredible thing"
"You cannot explain one incredible thing by quoting another incredible thing"
May 12, 2018
ترجمة مميزة وجميلة لقصة قصيرة خفيفة !💛
لو طلب عنوان آخر للقصة لسميتها الآلة التي اكلت صاحبها !!
فكرة طريفة قام بها الأسد الثائر البروفيسور تشالنجر بمحاولة لمنع الجريمة !!
لو طلب عنوان آخر للقصة لسميتها الآلة التي اكلت صاحبها !!
فكرة طريفة قام بها الأسد الثائر البروفيسور تشالنجر بمحاولة لمنع الجريمة !!
May 9, 2017
This short story is remarkable for two things. First, a Latvian crazy scientist discovered beaming in the early twentieth century. Second, Professor Challenger is faced with the moral dilemma if killing one person can be justified by saving the lifes of many others. Replace the Latvian scientist with any modern day mass murderer / terrorist / villain.
For a short story with less than 10 pages this is a lot of content. Don’t expect any elaborate characters or plot. The most entertaining Challenger story albeit nothing redeeming the weak Challenger franchise.
For a short story with less than 10 pages this is a lot of content. Don’t expect any elaborate characters or plot. The most entertaining Challenger story albeit nothing redeeming the weak Challenger franchise.
June 20, 2014
The Disintegration Machine by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle is made even more famous by the latest productions of Sherlock Holmes, Games of Shadows and new TV series.
I had a teacher of Literature, in highschool, who said that all great novels have a kind of mystery plot. Chevorkian is always on my mind and I think I have mentioned him quite a few times in my notes.
He is the best I have ever had, who made his students love to read, taught them what the real values are and all this with excellent anecdotes.
I remember one where George Calinescu, the greatest Romanian writer had a course in Literature and asked a Question. At that moment, one of the political appointed supervisors, in a key position because of his communist credentials, not for any knowledge of prose or poetry, came into the door.
Intimidated by the great critic and writer, the apparatchik went away...
Faced with this, George Calinescu exclaimed:
- Nu stie!! He doesn’t know- the answer to the question, he had asked in class..
The Desintegration Machine is about a...desintegration machine. At the time when Doyle wrote this story, it was a kind of science fiction tale, which proved to be prescient.
The atom and the hydrogen bombs have been invented in the meantime and they areso good at destroying, that we could be annihilated a few times over. Indeed, we did come close, during the Cuban missile crisis, for instance.
These WMD, weapons of mass destruction are obviously a great threat, but I am thinking that, after World War II, when the Americans have been for a while the sole posesors of the Atomic Bomb, they should have used this to their and the world’s adbantage.
While the Russians were only racing to get but did not have the „bomb�, the Western World could have saved so many people, and a big part of the world so much economic, cultural, social distress by pushing Russia out of the game, before the Cold War would even start.
Such is the game and the stakes in this short story, played at a whole different, lower level, but with the inventor of the „Desintegration Machine� saying he would sell it to a foreign power.
Profeesor Challenger, the hero of the story is a complex character- I am torn between hating and giving him the nenefit of the doubt. He can even be comical, when he comes back in an altered shape and form.
He claims that he wants to spare his country the ordeal of having to fight an enemy who might have in his armory a terrible weapon, which could win him the war.
If we think of the fact that the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have pushed Japan out of the war in 1945, that judgment may prove to be accurate.
On the other hand, the machine in the tale desintegrates, but can also „bring Back”what has vanished. It can even alter the shape and form, to the amusement of the reader, but not of those involved...
Arthur Conan Doyle is made even more famous by the latest productions of Sherlock Holmes, Games of Shadows and new TV series.
I had a teacher of Literature, in highschool, who said that all great novels have a kind of mystery plot. Chevorkian is always on my mind and I think I have mentioned him quite a few times in my notes.
He is the best I have ever had, who made his students love to read, taught them what the real values are and all this with excellent anecdotes.
I remember one where George Calinescu, the greatest Romanian writer had a course in Literature and asked a Question. At that moment, one of the political appointed supervisors, in a key position because of his communist credentials, not for any knowledge of prose or poetry, came into the door.
Intimidated by the great critic and writer, the apparatchik went away...
Faced with this, George Calinescu exclaimed:
- Nu stie!! He doesn’t know- the answer to the question, he had asked in class..
The Desintegration Machine is about a...desintegration machine. At the time when Doyle wrote this story, it was a kind of science fiction tale, which proved to be prescient.
The atom and the hydrogen bombs have been invented in the meantime and they areso good at destroying, that we could be annihilated a few times over. Indeed, we did come close, during the Cuban missile crisis, for instance.
These WMD, weapons of mass destruction are obviously a great threat, but I am thinking that, after World War II, when the Americans have been for a while the sole posesors of the Atomic Bomb, they should have used this to their and the world’s adbantage.
While the Russians were only racing to get but did not have the „bomb�, the Western World could have saved so many people, and a big part of the world so much economic, cultural, social distress by pushing Russia out of the game, before the Cold War would even start.
Such is the game and the stakes in this short story, played at a whole different, lower level, but with the inventor of the „Desintegration Machine� saying he would sell it to a foreign power.
Profeesor Challenger, the hero of the story is a complex character- I am torn between hating and giving him the nenefit of the doubt. He can even be comical, when he comes back in an altered shape and form.
He claims that he wants to spare his country the ordeal of having to fight an enemy who might have in his armory a terrible weapon, which could win him the war.
If we think of the fact that the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have pushed Japan out of the war in 1945, that judgment may prove to be accurate.
On the other hand, the machine in the tale desintegrates, but can also „bring Back”what has vanished. It can even alter the shape and form, to the amusement of the reader, but not of those involved...
January 18, 2025
2022: A really short professor Challenger story, but quite enjoyable. Challenger's moral choice in the end could very easily be challenged.
2025: This was probably the fourth time I read this. This was included in my edition of The Poison Belt. It still works, even though I remembered how the story ends. Unfortunately no Summerlee or Roxton, but at least Malone narrates the story.
4.25/5
2025: This was probably the fourth time I read this. This was included in my edition of The Poison Belt. It still works, even though I remembered how the story ends. Unfortunately no Summerlee or Roxton, but at least Malone narrates the story.
4.25/5
February 9, 2020
تتحدث الرواية عن رجل يُدعى ثيودور نِمور زعم اختراع آلة لديها القدرة على تفكيك أي جسم يُوضع في مجال تأثيرها، حيث تتحللَّ
مادة الجسم وتتحول
إلى صورتها الجزيئية أو الذرية، وعند عكس العملية، يُمكن إعادة تجميع الجسم.
وطبعا لمثل هذه الآلة أهمية بالغة باعتبارها سلاحا يُِمكن استخدامه في الحروب؛ فأي قوة يمكنها السيطرة على العالم من خلال تفكيك سفينة حربية، أو تحويل كتيبة من الجنود إلى مجموعة من الذرات.
ونظرا لأهمية تلك الآلة العجيبة يذهب إليه العالم تشالنجر ليتثبت بنفسه من صحة هذا الاختراع، وعندما تتبين له قدرات هذه الآلة، يمتلئ صدره وجلاً لما قد يترتب على استخدامها من مَضارٍ، فيحتال على المخترع ليفككه إلى جزيئات، وبذلك يكون قد أفناه وأفنى معه فكرته إلى الأبد.
طبعا الرواية صغيرة جدا، وهي جديرة بأن تُقرأ في جلسة واحدة؛ ولكنها خالية عن الأفكار؛ ولا أدري لماذا انشغل كثير من أولئك الكُتاب بفكرة صنع آلة للتفكيك؛ تبدو غكرة مستحيلة، إننا الآن على علم بأن كل جسم عبارة عن أجهزة تتكون من أعضاء تتكون من أنسجة تتكون من خلايا تتكون من جزيئات البروتين والدهون والكربوهيدرات، وأساس هذه الجزيئات عنصرا الكربون والهيدروجين، ومع ذلك لا يمكننا تفكيك أي جسم أو تجميعه أو إعادته للحياة؛ فإن الحياة لها سرٌ خافٍ هو الروح.
October 27, 2024
"La macchina disintegratrice" A. C. Doyle: 8
Robert Challenger è l'eroe che il mondo merita, ma di cui farebbe anche volentieri a meno tante volte.
Inghilterra 1913 circa
Theodore Nemor è uno scienziato pazzo che ha inventato una macchina in grado di disintegrare cose/persone/città/lettera e testamento. Ed Malone viene mandato dal Daily Gazzette per intervistarlo. Per comprendere meglio l'invenzione Ed chiede al professore Challenger di accompagnarlo. I due subiscono una dimostrazione del tremendo potere della macchina che è in grado di smaterializzare in pochi secondi chiunque si sieda su di essa. Giustamente preoccupati chiedono le intenzioni dello scienziato a riguardo e questo rivela loro di voler vendere il progetto a uno Stato affinché ne sviluppi un'arma di distruzione di massa. Senza batter ciglio Challenger, fingendo un malfunzionamento della macchina, convince lo scienziato a sedersi sulla sedia e lo smaterializza per poi tornarsene tranquillo alle proprie occupazioni lasciando gli atomi dello scienziato pazzo dispersi a fluttuare nell'etere.
Robert Challenger è l'eroe che il mondo merita, ma di cui farebbe anche volentieri a meno tante volte.
Inghilterra 1913 circa
Theodore Nemor è uno scienziato pazzo che ha inventato una macchina in grado di disintegrare cose/persone/città/lettera e testamento. Ed Malone viene mandato dal Daily Gazzette per intervistarlo. Per comprendere meglio l'invenzione Ed chiede al professore Challenger di accompagnarlo. I due subiscono una dimostrazione del tremendo potere della macchina che è in grado di smaterializzare in pochi secondi chiunque si sieda su di essa. Giustamente preoccupati chiedono le intenzioni dello scienziato a riguardo e questo rivela loro di voler vendere il progetto a uno Stato affinché ne sviluppi un'arma di distruzione di massa. Senza batter ciglio Challenger, fingendo un malfunzionamento della macchina, convince lo scienziato a sedersi sulla sedia e lo smaterializza per poi tornarsene tranquillo alle proprie occupazioni lasciando gli atomi dello scienziato pazzo dispersi a fluttuare nell'etere.
May 22, 2020
اول مره اقرا للبروفيسور تشالنجر بما يتميز من طباع حادة جدا ولكنه ف احلك الاوقات يستمع الي صوت العقل
تتحدث القصه القصيره عن المخترع نمور حيث انه اخترع اله تستطيع ان تفكك جزيئات اي ماده حتي البشر الي موادها الاوليه ثم بعكس الاشارات تستطيع أن تستجمع الجزيئات مره اخري بنفس الترتيب
فما كان من الصحفي الشاب مالون والبروفيسور الا ان يتاكدو من هذا الاختراع
لما فيه من عواقب وخيمه اذا وقع ف الايدي الخطأ
ومع تجربه البروفيسور وما رآه وجد ان بالفعل الاله حقيقيه وسيأتي من ورائها مالايحم. عقباه وبالتالي اوقع نمور ف شرك ان هناك شحنات تتسرب ف الكرسي وضغط الزر الذي يفكك وهنا تلاشت أجزاء ذلك ال نمور وتلاشب ف الهواء ولم يكن للبررفيسور اي نييه الي تجميع تكوينه مره اخري
وهنا انتهت قصه اله التفكيك
تتحدث القصه القصيره عن المخترع نمور حيث انه اخترع اله تستطيع ان تفكك جزيئات اي ماده حتي البشر الي موادها الاوليه ثم بعكس الاشارات تستطيع أن تستجمع الجزيئات مره اخري بنفس الترتيب
فما كان من الصحفي الشاب مالون والبروفيسور الا ان يتاكدو من هذا الاختراع
لما فيه من عواقب وخيمه اذا وقع ف الايدي الخطأ
ومع تجربه البروفيسور وما رآه وجد ان بالفعل الاله حقيقيه وسيأتي من ورائها مالايحم. عقباه وبالتالي اوقع نمور ف شرك ان هناك شحنات تتسرب ف الكرسي وضغط الزر الذي يفكك وهنا تلاشت أجزاء ذلك ال نمور وتلاشب ف الهواء ولم يكن للبررفيسور اي نييه الي تجميع تكوينه مره اخري
وهنا انتهت قصه اله التفكيك
March 14, 2021
Un raccontro breve che rimette in scena il prof. Challenger, autonominatosi la pi�� grande mente del pianeta, che insieme al suo amico Maloneindaga sulla meravigliosa macchina disintegratrice del professor Nemor. Tra scene ridicole che esaspereranno in carattere irascibile e focoso di Challenger, come al solito, Doyle ci rivela qui che a differenza del (presunto lontano) cugino Sherlock Holmes, Challenger non esita ad eliminare le persone per quello che ritiene il bene superiore.
Comunque 2 stelle, non di più.
Comunque 2 stelle, non di più.
April 11, 2025
The shortest of the original Challenger adventures is absolutely worth it. In such short length the science fiction premise is established (as well as the inherent threat), Challenger tackles it in his own unique and hilarious way, and he triumphs over it in a peculiar manner that is frankly surprising for him, yet is fitting and highly entertaining--despite the brevity. Even a story as short as this one plainly shows what a fascinating and fun character Challenger truly is...
...sigh, if only Sir Conan Doyle gave him more chances of being so.
...sigh, if only Sir Conan Doyle gave him more chances of being so.
December 16, 2019
في محاولة السير آرثر كونان دويل الخروج من عبائه بطله الأشهر شارلوك هولمز ابتكر شخصية جديده وهي شخصية البروفيسور تشالنجر.
البروفيسور تشالنجر عالم وباحث ومستكشف شخصية غريبه لا تملك امامها الا الشعور المختلط بالخوف المشوب بالإعجاب والاحترام.
البروفيسور تشالنجر ظهر مع آرثر كونان دويل في 5 أعمال أشهرهم على الاطلاق العالم المفقود.
في قصتنا القصيرة هذه آلة التفكيك يتم دعوته لتقييم اكتشاف علمي جديد من أجل التاج البريطاني ليفاجئ بمفاجأة مذهلة.
البروفيسور تشالنجر عالم وباحث ومستكشف شخصية غريبه لا تملك امامها الا الشعور المختلط بالخوف المشوب بالإعجاب والاحترام.
البروفيسور تشالنجر ظهر مع آرثر كونان دويل في 5 أعمال أشهرهم على الاطلاق العالم المفقود.
في قصتنا القصيرة هذه آلة التفكيك يتم دعوته لتقييم اكتشاف علمي جديد من أجل التاج البريطاني ليفاجئ بمفاجأة مذهلة.
September 9, 2024
Victorian literature is timeless. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote so much more than just Sherlock Holmes.
Professor Challenger is a proud, aggressive and opulent megalomaniac, but he has a heart of gold.
In this adventure he discovers a pre- Star Trek transporter. When he learns that the inventor is going to sell it to the highest bidder, and the world will be upside down, he makes the ultimate decision, that he assigns himself the duty of making.
Another great short story.
Professor Challenger is a proud, aggressive and opulent megalomaniac, but he has a heart of gold.
In this adventure he discovers a pre- Star Trek transporter. When he learns that the inventor is going to sell it to the highest bidder, and the world will be upside down, he makes the ultimate decision, that he assigns himself the duty of making.
Another great short story.
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