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A review by gudrqa
The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham by H.G. Wells
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
The story is short so there isn’t much NOT to like.
I had to subtract some points since it is the Audrey edition and I think the guide part did not do it justice.
SPOILERS BELOW
I think when exploring this book we need to actually ask ourselves first… did it really happen? Did they switch their bodies at all. Or is Mr Elvesham just old and senile. I think it’s even more distressing to think there was no magic, no supernatural and that this might happen to all of us.
Does it matter if it even happened?
And if it happened - how much of us is our body. Our ticks, voice, weird pains, shape of our nails. Is it even possible to be oneself without one’s body?
I had to subtract some points since it is the Audrey edition and I think the guide part did not do it justice.
SPOILERS BELOW
I think when exploring this book we need to actually ask ourselves first… did it really happen? Did they switch their bodies at all. Or is Mr Elvesham just old and senile. I think it’s even more distressing to think there was no magic, no supernatural and that this might happen to all of us.
Does it matter if it even happened?
And if it happened - how much of us is our body. Our ticks, voice, weird pains, shape of our nails. Is it even possible to be oneself without one’s body?