After taking a withered rose from a nameless black book, the title character causes it to bloom by placing it in a vase, inspiring his four guests to drink from the champagne glasses in front of them.
This story is set in a room featuring a bronze bust of Hippocrates and a portrait of Sylvia Ward, and one character in it conceives of a project to harness whales to icebergs in order to supply the East Indies with ice. After taking a withered rose from a nameless black book, the title character causes it to bloom by placing it in a vase, inspiring his four guests to drink from the champagne glasses in front of them. Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Colonel Killigrew are then inflamed by their sudden youthful passion to fight over the newly-young Widow Wycherly, but they all revert to their original ages once the effects of water from the Fountain of Youth wear off. FTP, name this Nathaniel Hawthorne short story about a scientist who shares his name with the author of Being and Time.
This story is set in a room featuring a bronze bust of Hippocrates and a portrait of Sylvia Ward, and one character in it conceives of a project to harness whales to icebergs in order to supply the East Indies with ice.
"{Dr. Heidegger's Experiment}"