Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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The Time Traveller's Particularity, the Irreducible Human Particularity
One of the things i found most touching about the time machine, when these moments where individual particularity broke through. And one of them actually has to do with shoes. There's a simi moment, i think, in the relation with wena that something breaks through there,. You know, his disregard and disdain the undifferentiated character of this ifricated human race. But then in those last lines, which i find, in a way, very moving, despite this vision, when he has these flowers in his pocket. They are what authenticate, ratify, his relation to this experience as having really happened. The contrast between the warmth and comfort the time travellers home, and
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