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Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 09:32:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  3 09:32:44 1984
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I'm trying to locate a science fiction story (it appeared in a 
collection of short stories) that had the following plot elements:

	1) 	Took place in the future
	2)	The hero was sent out from earth in a single man
		"spaceship" on a mission of general discovery
		(The spaceship is in quotes because it was more than a 
		spaceship.. it was an extension of himself).
	3)	He was the symbol of the best that could be achieved by 
		man (and knew it).
	4)	He could go anywhere and do anything.. and thought that
		he was virtually a God.
	5)	Needless to say he came across an intelligence that 
		swatted him out of space like a fly and completely
		humiliated him.. stripping him of everything including
		his humanity.
	6)	Most of the story focuses on him as an animal regaining
		some semblence of concious thought and eventually 
		defeating the alien that had tried to crush him.
	7)	At the end he returns to earth in the aliens ship.. 
		however due to what he's been through he is no longer
		really human, and everyone else knows it.

Does it ring a bell for anyone? It was one of the most powerfull short 
stories I ever read... and of course I neglected to write down the title 
or authors name. My guess is that is was written in the 50s or early 
60s and the version I read was in hard cover.