> There was a really good story based on this idea which I remember reading at school. I have the idea it was an oldish story, perhaps nineteenth century or early twentieth? Or maybe not. It was about a missionary who went nuts from thinking too much about how the specks in his opal ring might really be planets whose life forms were worshipping him as God.
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> Brunnen-"actually, I like that name for the theory"G

Are you talking about "The Man Who Saw Through Heaven" by Wilbur Daniel Steele? I *loved* that story - I think it is one of the most powerful short stories I have ever read.

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