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The Time Machine
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I read this story in 1962, after Miss Stearns (of blessed memory) read some Wells to us kids in seventh grade. Wow.
I had suddenly had picked up the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Bug.
BIG time!
That was when my disease - reading - got terminal, with this one book which Mom brought to me at age eleven (invalidated for a week with a head cold) from our Police Village public library which she ran.
Can you imagine, my MOM (bless her, too, in the hereafter, Lord) purposefully gave me a terminal disease?
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No joke - I'm now, at 74, slowly Dying from it!
Used to be music I constantly used to crave as the drug of choice to take upstairs for naptime - now it's my Kindle. I just can't stop reading!
But it's gotten even worse.
Because When you're reading time stops. That means I'm now in Wells' story as the main character. Time stops and light turns grey when you're hurtling thru time, Wells tells us.
That's where my soulmate of 47 years and I are now.
Grey power rules! Wells was right - time flies when you're having fun.
And reading is still the most fun I've had in years.
We're even morphing in tune with our years, as Wells says - we're turning into Elois, gosh darn it. We snack on healthy food, and less of it.
A banquet is way too much! And we avoid fleshly things, like the Good Book says. And the bad folk - Morlocks all - are meanwhile morphing into subterranean creepy crawlies.
Holy moley! Did I just say The Time Machine is a CHRISTIAN book, too?
***
Yes.
I did.
I had suddenly had picked up the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Bug.
BIG time!
That was when my disease - reading - got terminal, with this one book which Mom brought to me at age eleven (invalidated for a week with a head cold) from our Police Village public library which she ran.
Can you imagine, my MOM (bless her, too, in the hereafter, Lord) purposefully gave me a terminal disease?
***
No joke - I'm now, at 74, slowly Dying from it!
Used to be music I constantly used to crave as the drug of choice to take upstairs for naptime - now it's my Kindle. I just can't stop reading!
But it's gotten even worse.
Because When you're reading time stops. That means I'm now in Wells' story as the main character. Time stops and light turns grey when you're hurtling thru time, Wells tells us.
That's where my soulmate of 47 years and I are now.
Grey power rules! Wells was right - time flies when you're having fun.
And reading is still the most fun I've had in years.
We're even morphing in tune with our years, as Wells says - we're turning into Elois, gosh darn it. We snack on healthy food, and less of it.
A banquet is way too much! And we avoid fleshly things, like the Good Book says. And the bad folk - Morlocks all - are meanwhile morphing into subterranean creepy crawlies.
Holy moley! Did I just say The Time Machine is a CHRISTIAN book, too?
***
Yes.
I did.
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Jan 13, 2024 02:14PM
Thanks for your review, Fergus. May I congratulate you on your "terminal disease" of reading. I read this recently (for the first time) and was awed by the originality and unassuming literary talent of H.G. Wells.
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Oh, yes indeed - as a polymathic novelist the known universe was never big enough for him!
Oh, and btw, the story Miss Stearns read to us was The Door in the Wall (see my review) which a Catholic apologist used for the starting point of his fantastical exploration of the ways fantasy writing can bring us closer to Faith, Doors in the Wall of the World (another review I wrote)!
Seems to me, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING (from our side as humans) can bring us closer to God.
On my TBR, Fergus and determined to read it this year! Wonderful review!!
I think Rose has got it right, folks - little things as well.as the big ideas are godly! And Terrie, glad you added it. Wel!s is describing the tenor of our times and describing its up & downward trajectory!
Awesome review that made me smile. If reading is a terminal disease, all I can say is “WHAT A WAY TO GO!” Lately I’ve started to feel that I just don’t have enough years left to read what I crave.
It's a funny feeling, alright! But as for me, I now read ever more slowly the old books I love but put my whole HEART into it. When I come back to myself my aches & pains don't matter so much anymore!
Misty wrote: "Awesome review that made me smile. If reading is a terminal disease, all I can say is “WHAT A WAY TO GO!” Lately I’ve started to feel that I just don’t have enough years left to read what I crave."What a way to have quality of life, though, Misty. You don't get to choose how many years but you do choose your books. That's the kind of thinking that helps me, anyway!
Fergus, Quondam Happy Face wrote: "It's a funny feeling, alright! But as for me, I now read ever more slowly the old books I love but put my whole HEART into it. When I come back to myself my aches & pains don't matter so much anymore!"Isn't it amazing, Fergus, how much life a good book can pour into a willing reader!
Yes! I think their power is PHENOMENAL.
Fergus, your passion and joy for books is contagious. Thank you for the inspiration! I also love knowing that you got your love for reading from your Mom! 🥰
Yeah, I sure did! Whenever I got under the weather with a cold or flu, she’d PLY me with books straight off her library shelves! My Dad helped too - in a different way - cause whenever I got really sick, he’d give me music (like the Tijuana Brass albums in my teens, from whom I got a brainstorm for a new band - the Meri-juana Brass) which took off in high school! He helped with science classes too.
I read this lately Fergus and enjoyed it mostly. The first few chapters were too technical for me but after that I flew through it!
Yes, I had that feeling too. I love the idea of a higher order of beings - like angels? - to guide the rest of us! I think no matter how bad things get, there will still be good people.
Yes there has to be something to believe in Fergus. I've been through hard times and something must have been there because I don't know how I got through them on my own.
Did my 10th-grade "book review" speech on this book. (It's downstairs in a box in storage.)
Mike (with thanks to Teresa), something far greater than me got me through those naive years of youth - I could never believe in myself, being ontologically challenged enough to be gun shy of my class - but an angel protected me throughout!
Thanks so very much, my far-away friend!🙂
