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strongly bounded than in a solid of the same chemical composition, and consequently, they may
shift their positions. The bonds in a liquid are, nevertheless, strong enough so that the atoms stay
in contact with surrounding atoms. In a gas, the bonding between individual molecules is so
weak that individual molecules may move in all directions, and the absence of cohesive forces
allows the vapor to expand throughout any container.
3. The Psychology of Uncertainty: (Re)Inscribing Indeterminacy in
Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies
Adrienne Gosselin
Other Voices, v.1, n.3 (January 1999)
Like Dashiell Hammett, Rudolph Fisher, author of The Conjure-Man Dies (1932)
experimented with the clue puzzle format dominating the so-called Golden Age of detective
fiction in the 1920s and early 1930s. Also like Hammett, Fisher's experiment involves combining
classical detective fiction with elements of the newly developing hard-boiled formula. Among
the ways Fisher's experiment is unique is in its transfer of the detective plot to an all-black
setting. As a result, The Conjure-Man Dies is the first text to replace the “formulaic combination
of characters, settings, and events designed to represent a microcosm of middle-class society”
(Grella 42) with characters, settings, and events designed to represent a microcosm of urban
black society. [1]
The plot of The Conjure-Man Dies centers on the murder of N'Gana Frimbo, a Harlem
conjure-man who is also an African king and Harvard graduate. Midway into the investigation,
the corpse disappears and, shortly thereafter, Frimbo “resurrects” himself, seated in the very
chair on which he had been murdered. Unable to convince the police what they mistook for death
to be suspended animation, Frimbo offers to assist the police in finding his would-be murderer.
Leading the police investigation is Perry Dart, one of the ten black policemen on the Harlem
police force and the only black to be promoted from patrolman to detective. Working with Dart
is John Archer, a pedantic black physician with a Latinate vocabulary and a penchant for solving
crimes. [2] Of equal importance, but overlooked by critics, is Bubber Brown, [3] an ex-sanitation
worker turned private investigator, who works to clear his partner, who has been framed for
Frimbo’s murder. [4] In the course of the investigation, it is discovered that the murdered victim
is not the conjure-man but, rather, N’Ogo Frimbo, the conjure-man’s assistant and fellow
countryman. While Archer and Dart, with assistance from Bubber Brown, pursue Frimbo as the
murderer, Frimbo—who is innocent—pursues the real criminal, whom he reveals at the novel’s
conclusion, but at the cost of his life.
4. Highly charged particle impact ionization of He
M Foster
1
, D H Madison
1
, J L Peacher
1
and J Ullrich
2
Published 21 September 2004
Print publication: Issue 19 (14 October 2004)
Absolute experimental measurements have been reported for the fully differential cross
section (FDCS) for single ionization of helium by 3.6 MeV/u Au
Q+
(Q = 24, 53) ions. These
absolute measurements are not in very good agreement with CDW-EIS (continuum distorted
wave-eikonal initial state) calculations which are normally in excellent agreement with doubly
differential cross-section measurements. We have recently introduced the 3DW-EIS approach
which is a fully quantum mechanical approach. In addition, we have used a Hartree–Fock
distorted wave for the outgoing electron instead of approximating the ejected electron as a
Coulomb wave with an effective charge. For the case of low-energy C
6+
ionization of helium, the
3DW-EIS model was in better agreement with absolute experimental data than the CDW-EIS
approximation. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the validity of the 3DW-EIS model for
