6/9/2023 0 Comments The time traveler hg wells![]() ![]() Our amateur anthropologist continues to make his bricolage of conclusions… One will wait in vain for the irruption of an omniscient figure, or one who can simply communicate to the protagonist the history of that strange world: a comforting and paternal figure in the style of the Great Lama of Shangri-La. ![]() ![]() He who crosses the sea changes his sky, not his soul (Horace). His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels. It is an entirely unjustified conjecture and, if it proves anything, it is that the body travels faster than the mind, whether in time or space. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. The re burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that ashed and passed in our glasses. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was ushed and animated. This is an extremely nineteenth-century-style theory, tinged with socialism, Darwinism and other ideologies to the taste of its time, and would make the novel a journey into the past, rather than into the future, were it not for the fact that it is never supported by events. The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. ![]()
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