 What new emotion was Kalvin experiencing after quitting Piltdon Opener Company?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1958. Kalvin Feetch shrunk visibly. "The Piltdon Can-Opener is trailing the competition. "But Mr. Piltdon," remonstrated Feetch unsteadily under his employer's glare, "don't you remember? Our own Piltdon opener barely manages to open a can in eight point nine without chimes. "But Mr. Piltdon, our opener still has stability, solidity. I want it completely developed, engineered and tooled-up, ready for production. "But Mr. Piltdon, four months is hardly time enough for development, even with an adequate staff. A designer had to dream at his board, investigate, search, build, test, compare, discard. He had always wanted to devote all his time to research, but Piltdon Opener had not given him that opportunity. Twenty-five years of close supervision, dead-lines, production headaches, inadequate facilities and assistance. What had happened, to the proud dream he once had, the dream of exploring uncharted engineering regions, of unlimited time to investigate and develop? Ah, well, thought Feetch straightening his thin shoulders, he had managed somehow to design a few good things during his twenty-five years with Piltdon. "We must work along classical can-opener lines. Twenty-five years of your life you put in with Piltdon, and he'd fire you just like that if you don't do the impossible. The Piltdon Company is built upon your designs and you get handed this deal!" "I drew my pay every week so I suppose I have no complaints. Several days later, however, Piltdon himself charged into the drawing room and slapped Feetch heartily on the back, causing him to break a pencil point. After Piltdon had seen it his eyes took on a feverish glint. The first tentative shipments of Piltdon Super-Openers had gone to distributors along the Eastern seaboard. Piltdon Opener went into peak production in three shifts, but was still unable to keep up with the demand. Department stores, lucky enough to have Super-Openers on hand, limited sales to one to a customer. Newspapers, magazines, radio, television and word-of-mouth spread the fame of the opener so that advertising was unnecessary. Receiving no satisfactory explanation from Piltdon, they set up their own research. Noted physicists probed, measured, weighed, traced, X-rayed, dissolved, spun, peered at, photographed, magnetized, exploded, shattered and analyzed Super-Openers without achieving the glimmer of a satisfactory explanation.
 Anger
 Cowardice  Anger  Misery  Submission