The Time MachineH. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term "time machine." The Time Traveler of this novella tests his time machine with a leap forward to the year 802,701 A.D., to find that evolution has produced two very different post-human races - the peaceful and childlike fruit-eating Eloi and the Morlocks - pale, darkness-dwelling troglodites who operate the underground machinery that makes this seeming paradise possible. |
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Page 4
... passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision ...
... passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision ...
Page 9
... have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.' 'But the great difficulty is 9.
... have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.' 'But the great difficulty is 9.
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... passed his hand through the space in which the machine had been. 'You see?' he said, laughing. We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so. Then the Time Traveller asked us what we thought of it all. 'It sounds plausible ...
... passed his hand through the space in which the machine had been. 'You see?' he said, laughing. We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so. Then the Time Traveller asked us what we thought of it all. 'It sounds plausible ...
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... passing, he led the way into the adjoining room. 'You have told Blank, and Dash, and Chose about the machine?' he said to me, leaning back in his easy-chair and naming the three new guests. 'But the thing's a mere paradox,' said the ...
... passing, he led the way into the adjoining room. 'You have told Blank, and Dash, and Chose about the machine?' he said to me, leaning back in his easy-chair and naming the three new guests. 'But the thing's a mere paradox,' said the ...
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... green; they grew, spread, shivered, and passed away. I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams. The whole surface of the earth seemed changed—melting and flowing under my eyes. The little hands upon 32.
... green; they grew, spread, shivered, and passed away. I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams. The whole surface of the earth seemed changed—melting and flowing under my eyes. The little hands upon 32.
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animal bars beautiful began breathing bright bronze bushes camphor clambering creatures crematoria crowbar cupola darkness dimensions door dust earth Editor Eloi eyes face faint fancied fear feeling feet fell felt Filby fire flame flaring flashed flickering floor flowers Fourth Dimension future gallery glare gone Green Porcelain grew hand head heaps heard hesitated hill huge human incontinently laboratory lamp laughed Lemur lever lichen light little lawn little Weena looked round machine match Medical mind minute moon Morlocks move night once Palace of Green pedestal perhaps pocket presently Psychologist quartz queer reflection rhododendron ruins seemed shadow shaft silent sleep slope slower smiled soft space stared stars stood stopped strange struck suddenly tell thick thing thought took Traveller tried turned Upper-world vanished verdigris watch White Sphinx wood