The Secret Sense

The story begins with a man and a martian. The man is playing some music for the martian. They talk about how they can communicate. They begin to talk about the senses and the things the martian is missing out on. The martian says that he has a secret sense. He is able to tell when something is poisonous or if there is a current in a wire. Fields finds out that he could have 5 minutes of using the sense if he wanted to but the martian urges him not to. He then asks for it under the sake of gratitude the martian owed him. The martian tells him he will be hearing part of a portwem (symphony). There was an instrument used for playing it. It has black knobs and white petals. He meets a man that plays the instrument and a man that is a physician. He intends to innoculate him for the 5 minutes. It began to work and he saw different hues of light and he heard different sounds. After these things he realized he had felt the sense. He couldn't name it but he knew he felt it. Then it started to fade after about 5 minutes. He was very upset that he lost his ability to experience it. The martian told him he was now blind because he knows how great of a sense that was but he can never experience it again.