Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past. Why?
What a coincidence that this AI generated prompt popped up this morning, as yesterday evening I spent a most enjoyable few hours listening to the Time Machine by HG Wells. I’ve got to admit I am not a fan of futuristic fantasy and I have had the book free from Audible for some time. I finally got around to listening to it.
At first, I thought , oh no this is going to be like some “boys own” fantasy, how wrong I was. This story describes how humanity will fail and how the World as we know it will change to perhaps an unhospitable land where creatures we simply do not understand will become extinct just like us and eventually the heat of the sun will be all the Earth knows, the moon having long disappeared.
I suppose the “Time Traveller” himself is a bit “boys own ” but in the book his self-analysis and his belief that he will use violence when necessary means he is very much a man of his time. Also his tenderness and frustration is surprisingly humane and shocking.
I was with the ” Time Traveller” on his journey , backward and forward in time and that which wasn’t described, since it was not part of HG Well’s story was left to my imagination. So I suppose for those few hours , I was backwards and forwards and all over the place.
Namast and Thank You for Reading.🙏
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