02598cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000470011324500300016026400510019030000470024133600260028833700260031433800360034049000660037650000310044250801030047352012910057653400750186765300200194265300180196265300320198070000270201283000660203985600880210585600430219377989UtSlPG20260610134816.0mcr n260607r20261930utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aBreuer, Miles J.q(Miles John),d1889-194514aThe Gostak and the Doshes 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Amazing Stories, March 1930 (vol. 04, no. 12.).  aRelease date is 2026-02-20  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aThe Gostak and the Doshes by Miles J. Breuer is a science fiction short story written in the early 20th century. It explores the idea of relativity and alternate dimensions while satirizing mass psychology and nationalism through the power of a meaningless political slogan.

A university physicist, Woleshensky, demonstrates how a shift in coordinates—treating time as a navigable axis—can move a person into another “slice” of the same world. The narrator follows his instructions, finds himself in a near-identical society, and is taken in by Professor Vibens and his family. As he settles into academic work, the nation erupts in fervor over the empty phrase “The gostak distims the doshes,” which sweeps the country, sparks persecution, and triggers a war abroad. The narrator witnesses recruiting, casualties, and rationing, refuses to fight for a cause with no meaning, and is sentenced to be shot. Marching to his execution, he re-applies the coordinate trick, “reverses” the slope between the poplars, and returns to his original world, where Woleshensky suggests both realities may be the same world seen through different coordinate cuts—underscoring how frames of reference shape both physics and human belief. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Experimenter Publications, Inc., 1930  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aFourth dimension -- Fiction1 aMorey, Leo,d1889-1965 0aProduced from Amazing Stories, March 1930 (vol. 04, no. 12.).4 uhttps://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v04n12_1930-03_Missing_1199-bc_cape173640uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77989