02310cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000480011324500200016126400510018130000470023233600260027933700260030533800360033149000560036750000310042350801290045452011650058353400450174865300200179365300180181370000130183183000560184485600430190099900170194323868UtSlPG20260610133540.0mcr n260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aBeck, C. C.q(Charles Clarence),d1910-198910aVanishing Point 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2007  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Astounding Science Fiction July 1959.  aRelease date is 2007-12-15  aProduced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net  a"Vanishing Point" by C. C. Beck is a science fiction short story published in the late 1950s. The narrative explores themes of perception, reality, and the nature of art through the lens of an artist's perspective machine. The story delves into philosophical questions about the essence of reality and challenges the boundaries between illusion and existence.  The plot follows an artist and his friend Carter, who is obsessed with understanding perspective and the true nature of reality. Carter constructs a perspective machine that he believes will reveal the authentic essence of the world. Upon its completion, he asserts that reality is merely a fabric of illusions, a concept that terrifies him and leads him to flee in panic. The protagonist, observing the peculiar effects of the machine, decides to keep it, contemplating its potential as an attraction at a county fair while reflecting on the nature of reality and perception. This engaging narrative ultimately challenges readers to consider whether what they perceive as reality is simply an illusion crafted by their senses and societal conditioning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aScience fiction  aShort stories1 aMartinez 0aProduced from Astounding Science Fiction July 1959.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23868  c64900d64900