Scan barcode
A review by logarithms
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
3.0
a funky little classic that brought up now ubiquitous themes in scifi. a short interesting read. i don't have really anything to say about this book lol i read most of it on the bus to garden world
tabs:
"'Then there is the future,' said the Very Young Man. 'Just think! One might invest all one's money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!'
'To discover a society,' said I, 'erected on a strictly communistic basis.'"
(also accumulate at an interest? hilarious. just buy bitcoin in 2010.) (it's kinda cool to glean the interest in communism rising from industrialization in little tidbits like this)
"Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? But you cannot. The Time Machine was gone! At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing."
"I do not know how long I sat peering down that well. It was not for some time that I could succeed in persuading myself that the thing I had seen was human."
tabs:
"'Then there is the future,' said the Very Young Man. 'Just think! One might invest all one's money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!'
'To discover a society,' said I, 'erected on a strictly communistic basis.'"
(also accumulate at an interest? hilarious. just buy bitcoin in 2010.) (it's kinda cool to glean the interest in communism rising from industrialization in little tidbits like this)
"Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? But you cannot. The Time Machine was gone! At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing."
"I do not know how long I sat peering down that well. It was not for some time that I could succeed in persuading myself that the thing I had seen was human."