Project Gutenberg 2007-10-05 Public domain in the USA. 77 Weinbaum, Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) 1902 1935 Weinbaum, Stanley Grauman The Ideal Produced from A Martian Odyssey and Others published in 1949. Reading ease score: 75.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Ideal" by Stanley G. Weinbaum is a science fiction novella written in the early 20th century. The book explores themes of desire, individuality, and the nature of perfection through the experiences of Dixon Wells, who interacts with a peculiar robotic automaton and a visionary device created by his eccentric professor, Haskel van Manderpootz. The narrative delves into the philosophical implications of ideals and their impact on human emotions and relationships. In this story, Dixon Wells becomes enamored with an idealized vision of beauty conjured by a device called the idealizator, which translates thoughts into visual representations. Initially captivated by this perfect image, Dixon learns that the face belongs to a long-deceased actress, de Lisle d'Agrion. As he becomes more infatuated with the ideal, he neglects his reality and the genuine human connection he could have with Denise, the potential love interest who admires similar traits to those of his imagined vision. A misguided attempt to let Denise visualize her own ideal leads to horror, resulting in her severe distress. Ultimately, Dixon grapples with the damaging effects of unattainable ideals, leaving him in a state of regret and contemplation about love and desire. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 73099 73100 2024-10-10T05:59:36.307543 2023-09-10T09:07:26.352782 text/html text/html 70104 2007-10-05T15:16:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 27214 2007-10-05T15:16:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 93294 2024-10-10T05:59:40.357526 application/epub+zip 92180 2024-10-10T05:59:37.967532 application/epub+zip 92178 2024-10-10T05:59:36.884535 application/epub+zip 166280 2024-10-10T05:59:42.085507 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 159690 2024-10-10T05:59:39.710531 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 130409 2022-09-10T15:48:40.110855 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 66866 66766 2024-10-10T05:59:36.015556 2023-09-10T09:07:26.156775 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 66803 2007-10-05T15:16:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 26295 2007-10-05T15:16:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 66795 2007-10-05T15:16:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 26279 2007-10-05T15:16:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22119 2024-10-10T05:59:42.211507 application/rdf+xml 10675 2024-10-10T05:59:37.421532 image/jpeg 3028 2024-10-10T05:59:37.151540 image/jpeg 90694 2024-10-10T05:59:36.315545 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia