 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. They found, of course, that Schwartzberg had been perfectly correct. 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.
 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