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O Problema da Cela 13

Name: O Problema da Cela 13
Author: Jacques Futrelle

Título em inglês: The Problem of Cell 13

de Jacques Futrelle · leitura graduada

6 capítulos
9.410 palavras
cerca de 72 min

Um cientista famoso diz que a mente humana pode fazer qualquer coisa. Para provar isso, deixa-se trancar numa cela do corredor da morte, com apenas suas roupas, e promete sair dali em uma semana.

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Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen had a very long name. Over the years he had also collected a great many letters to put after it, from universities all over the world. He was a doctor of philosophy, a doctor of law, a doctor of medicine and several other things. Even he could not remember them all.

He looked as strange as his name. He was thin, and his shoulders were bent from years of study. His face was pale, because he almost never went outside. Behind his thick glasses, his small, watery blue eyes were always half closed, like the eyes of a man who studies very small things. But the most surprising thing about him was his head. His forehead was enormously high and wide, and on top of it grew a thick mass of yellow hair. He wore a hat of size number eight.

For about thirty-five years, the professor had worked to prove one simple idea. Two and two always make four, not sometimes, but all the time. He believed that every problem had an answer, and that the human mind could find it.