Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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The Morlocks
The time machine was published only seven years after the murders committed in whitechapel by jack ripper. Wells is physically revolted by the morlocks. They are repellent, so much so that, in the words of the narrator, i long to kill a morlock. But it was impossible, somehow, to feel any humanity in the things. And here again, it might be worth remarking that only four years separate the time machine from conrad's heart of darkness. With it exterminate the brutes. The elo are ones who are incapable of their own distress. They can't defend themselves in any way. As one incapable of her own distress, the el
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