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The most extraordinary thing to my mind

May 31, 20140

Of all the strange and wonderful things that happened upon that Friday, was the dovetailing of the commonplace habits of our social order with the first beginnings of the series......

Of all the strange and wonderful things that happened upon that Friday, was the dovetailing of the commonplace habits of our social order with the first beginnings of the series of events that was to topple that social order headlong. If on Friday night you had taken a pair of compasses and drawn a circle with a radius of five miles round the Woking sand pits, I doubt if you would have had one human being outside it, unless it were some relation of Stent or of the three or four cyclists or London people lying dead on the common,......

We all overlooked the fact that such mechanical intelligence

May 31, 20140

The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that din- ner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My......

The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that din- ner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife’s sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lamp shade, the white cloth with its silver and glass table fur- niture—for in those days even philosophical writers had many little luxuries—the crimson- purple wine in my glass, are photo- graphically distinct. At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy’s rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians. So some......

Over the Maybury arch a train

May 31, 20140

A dim group of people talked in the gate of one of the houses in the pretty little row of gables that was called Oriental Terrace. It was all so......

A dim group of people talked in the gate of one of the houses in the pretty little row of gables that was called Oriental Terrace. It was all so real and so familiar. And that behind me! It was frantic, fantastic! Such things, I told myself, could not be. Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from some- where inconceivably remote, out......

I remember nothing of my flight except the stress of blundering

May 30, 20140

All about me gathered the invisible terrors of the Martians; that pitiless sword of heat seemed whirl- ing to and fro, flourishing overhead before it descended and smote me out......

All about me gathered the invisible terrors of the Martians; that pitiless sword of heat seemed whirl- ing to and fro, flourishing overhead before it descended and smote me out of life. I came into the road between the crossroads and Horsell, and ran along this to the crossroads. At last I could go no further; I was exhausted with the viol- ence of my emotion and of my flight, and I staggered and fell by the wayside. That was near the bridge that crosses the canal by the gasworks. I fell and lay still. I must have remained there......