The Lecturer's TaleNelson Humboldt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at the prestigious Midwest University until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach the finger, but when the bandages come off, Nelson realizes that he has acquired a strange power he can force his will onto others with a touch of his finger. And so he obtains an extension on the