那个人在 想什么事情

Th e main  character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neu
rosurgeon.
One day an int ense li
t tle man named 
Stei nmetz shows
 up, who
has
the real ability to create objects out of thin a
 ir, using only h is  mind. As no one believes him at first, he 

is hel
d at
 a ward  for mental patien

ts, but manifests the key to  his door and e scapes. A  s he has a special inte rest  in Dr. Hols t, Steinm etz subse  quentl y invite 
s 
H olst to his l
arge mansion, which is full of expensi
ve painti ngs and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact    materialis e objects. Steinmetz’s ab
il
ities 
are evolving by 
leaps an d bounds, an
d is progressing from being able to cr eate objec ts 
 only  to being able to create living things. His u ltimate ambit
 ion is to be able
 to 
 cr eate a human being. He te
lls Dr. Holst that
 if he will only  perf orm a certain brain  operati on on him, Stei nmetz wil l become able to
  attai
 n his goal. He’s got all  
the necessa
ry equipment s
e t up in his  ba sement. Dr. Holst , however,
 is too spooked by th

e  whole thing to  agree to this
mad schem

e, and refuses. S tein
metz t hen sets about ma nipul ating Hol st’s life, to pressu re him in to perfor ming the operation. By then St
einmetz  has become ab le to create a
tempo rary human being, and in th
e hope that  he can perhaps m

ake his

 own  creation perfo rm th
e oper ation, he manifest
s a 
do ppelganger of Dr. H olst. T his d o

uble proceeds to t a ke

over Dr. Hols 
t’s 
life,
creating chaos  for him professio nally and 
personally. And then Dr. Holst s
tart
s fig hting back. The ending has the du al v
i rtue of being both unexp
ect
ed a
nd satisfy  ing.