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 This Short Story was first published in The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction (June 1953 issue), by Isaac Asimov. This is a Science Fiction tale where a cybernetic researcher fresh out of college manages to quantify the ability to sense emotions purely from observing Body Language.Dr John Polen, our narrator, is attending a twenty-year Class Reunion with two of his friends from college; Kendell Casey and Reverend Winthrop. Polen has spent his time working in the field of cybernetics, under the assumption that emotion is the common bond of life, and analyzed brainwaves and Body Language. He hides his ability to read the emotions of people and animals from his old friends, seeing their unconscious hatred boil away at each other. Casey is always followed by flies, so he went into research for E. J. Link at Chatham to find chemicals to kill the pests. Despite his company getting great progress, he's unable to eliminate their habit of following him. Unlike the other two, Winthrop went into religion, and Polen notes that religion has failed to give him the purpose in life he always wanted.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"Flies" was republished several times;Science Fiction Terror Tales (1955), Fiction (issue #33, Aug 1956), Nightfall and Other Stories (1969), Urania (issue #569, June 1971), The Supernatural In Fiction (1973), The Eureka Years (1982), Masterpieces Of Terror And The Supernatural (1985), Sirius (issue #115, January 1986), The Best Science Fiction Of Isaac Asimov (1986), and The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990).Can be read here.
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 Class Reunion: John Polen, Kendell Casey, and Winthrop are meeting together for their twenty-year college reunion, trying to fit together the way they used to, despite all three of them having become more cynical and jaded than they used to be. We get Flashbacks to events taking place ~twenty years ago, as the characters reminisce about their past.
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 Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories
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