Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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The Tension in Wells the Artist
i want to discuss, if you are willing to on me, a few passages and aspects of the book. I find this an astounding aspect of the time machine, the sense that he has this kind of prophetic sort of prescience of the absolute disaster of this kind of technocratic regime. The same person who foresees this disaster is also the advocate of the means of that very disaster. Well, i think he's only a very extreme case of what fairly common actually that.
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