Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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Wells and the Time Machine
Wells was a believer in sexual reform and freedom, using his own life as a templete if he espoused a relaxed social relations. His mistresses including the writer rebecca west, the reformer margaret and mura badberg,. The russian aristocrat, who had also been the companion ofa maxim gorke, as well as many others. But back to the time machine. It was written four years before the outbreak of the second bor war. Thats 18 99, when a recruiting drive for the army revealed just how stunted and weekly were the males of the british eban working class. Wells would have noticed or known this. He wouldn't have
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