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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wells, H. G.

Wells, H. G.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Time Machine: Chapters 1 - 5

Chapter 1

There had been a small dinner party and it was that moment when
relaxation and good conversation take hold. In the course of conversation,
the host, identified only as the Time Traveller, had suggested that much of
the geometry commonly taught in the schools is basically erroneous. A
gentleman named Filby and a psychologist objected to this but the Time
Traveller was most convincing. He observed that any real body must possess
extension in four directions; there must be length, breadth, thickness and
duration. This ...

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