NP - Appropriating HG Wells

[Charles Albert]

there's that...and the fact that at the date of publication, H. G. Wells was
an avowed pacifist....


If Mr. Byrne replies to my e-mail, I will share the results....


love,
cfa

On 4/19/06, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> well, I always thought it was like, about the moral deadening
> attendant on denizens of an "upperclass" of any kind; insulated from
> reality by the wealth they've expropriated, they lose their competence
> and become prey...
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> and I thought Wells kind of agreed with their fate...
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> On 4/19/06, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > When Conflicting Civilizations CollideBy Dennis Byrne
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> > In H.G. Wells' "Time Machine," the helplessly fattened Eloi spend most
> of
> > their time waiting around their pleasant surroundings to be snatched
> away by
> > cannibal Morlocks. Those succulent pinkish Eloi who luckily aren't
> invited
> > for dinner this time can only wait their turn, not so much in fear,
> > but--simpletons that they are--in resigned ignorance.
> >
> > Though he wrote it more than 100 years ago, Wells nonetheless had many
> of
> > today's Americans nailed. Today's Eloi are Americans whose only
> "strategy"
> > for dealing with the dreadful and grisly terrorist assaults on us is to
> pull
> > back and wait for the next one.
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> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/04/when_conflicting_civilizations.html
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> > Those unfamiliar with the politics of H. G. Wells might want to check it
> > out....
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> > love,
> > cfa
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> --
> "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" - Thomas Stearns Eliot
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