The Time Machine —— An Invention

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ISBN: 9781330563007 出版年：2016 页码：226 H G Wells Forgotten Books

I had been jammed in a corner with a gentleman who shall be dis guised as Filby. He had been run ning down Milton — the public neg lects poor Filby's little verses shock ingly; and as I could think of nothing but the relative status of Filby and the man he criticised, and was much too timid to discuss that, the arrival Of that moment of fusion, when our several conversations were suddenly merged into a general dis cussion, was a great relief to me.