...and eastward. By ten o'clock the police organization, and by midday even the railway organizations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency,...social body. All the railway lines north of the Thames 102 and the South-Eastern people at Cannon Street had been warned by midnight on Sunday, and trains...

...was, with a last expiring effort, rousing the population of London to the necessity of flight. 330 XVI THE EXODUS FROM LONDON So you understand the roaring...standing-room in the carriages even at two o'clock. By three, pwple were being trampled and crushed even in Bishopsgate Street, a couple of hundred yards or more...

...for example, we are confronted with a vision of the collapsed infrastructure of civilization, a world "losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering,...last in that swift liquefaction of the social body" (150). Invoking the rhetoric of putrefaction, contagious disease, miasma, and the sewer, Wells captured...

...institutions of metropolitan government - the police and railway transport - that underwrite civilised order 'were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency,...last in that swift liquefaction of the social body' (121). This image is at once visceral and shocking in disclosing the imaginative connections between...