 What are the necessary components for Thaddeus to cause an "event"?
Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction November 1959. Show it to me when you have finished." Two muscular and bored attendants in spotless whites, lounged beside the locked door and chatted idly about the Dodgers' prospects for the pennant. Through the barred windows of the workshop, rolling green hills were seen, their tree-studded flanks making a pleasant setting for the mental institution. The crafts building was a good mile away from the main buildings of the hospital and the hills blocked the view of the austere complex of buildings that housed the main wards. She stopped behind a frowning, intense patient, rapidly shaping blobs of clay into odd-sized strips and forms. As he finished each piece, he carefully placed it into a hollow shell hemisphere of clay. The flying fingers continued to whip out the bits of shaped clay as the patient ignored the question. "You've been coming along famously and you must remember to answer when someone talks to you. Thaddeus Funston continued to mold the clay bits and put them in place. "Atom bomb." I thought you said an 'atom bomb.'" "Why that's very good, Mr. Funston. That shows real creative thought. "All right, fellows," he called out, "time to go back. At the clay table, Funston feverishly fabricated the last odd-shaped bit of clay and slapped it into place. With a furtive glance around him, he clapped the other half of the clay sphere over the filled hemisphere and then stood up.
 An object and his stare
 An object and his stare  Clay and his stare  A physical object  His stare, at a particular time of day