 How can we interpret Mr. Schwartzberg was feeling from his theory not being taken seriously?
Only Joseph Schwartzberg, head geographer of the Department of the Interior, wondered if the disturbance might not be a settling of the Kiowa Fault. The idea was not nearly so exciting as a volcano, even a lava-less one, and you couldn't draw a very dramatic picture of it. To excuse the other geologists, it must be said that the Kiowa Fault had never acted up before. The dust volcano was on the face of it a more plausible theory. They found, of course, that Schwartzberg had been perfectly correct. They found themselves on the scene of what was fast becoming the most violent and widespread earthquake North America—probably the world—has ever seen in historic times. To describe it in the simplest terms, land east of the Fault was settling, and at a precipitous rate. East, where sharp reports and muffled wheezes told of continued buckling and dropping, the earth trembled downward. "It looks like sand dancing in a child's sieve," said the normally impassive Schwartzberg in a nationwide broadcast from the scene of disaster. But the band of scientists who had rallied to his leadership privately wondered if there would be any pieces. And, warned Schwartzberg, this might only be the beginning. Land west of the Fault was holding firm, though Denver had recorded several small tremors; everywhere east of the Fault, to almost twenty miles away, the now-familiar lurch and steady fall had already sent several thousand Coloradans scurrying for safety.
 Frustrated because his evidentiary support showed it was logical
 Frustrated because his evidentiary support showed it was logical  Happy that he might be incorrect and it was only dust  Disappointed that he had missed his opportunity for scientific acknowledgement.  Excited that it could likely be something more exciting