The Time Machine (line by line) @TimeMachine_LBL

H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” in tweets line by line. #HGWells #TheTimeMachine #TimeMachine #Tweets_LBL x.com/i/lists/142121… The year 802,701, A.D. Joined August 2021

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Save for the lamp the table was bare.

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One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone—vanished!

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There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped.

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I am absolutely certain there was no trickery.

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We all saw the lever turn.

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So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage.

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And turning to the Psychologist, he took that individual’s hand in his own and told him to put out his forefinger.

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“Lend me your hand.”

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“No,” he said suddenly.

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Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the lever.

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The Psychologist seemed about to speak to me, but changed his mind.

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There was a minute’s pause perhaps.

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I don’t want to waste this model, and then be told I’m a quack.”

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Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery.

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Have a good look at the thing.

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It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear.

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Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go.

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This saddle represents the seat of a time traveller.

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Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: “Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion.