The Time Machine - International World History Project

The Time MachineeBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.progress I could in the language, and in addition I pushedmy explorations here and there. Either I missed somesubtle point or their language was excessively simple—almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives andverbs. There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, orlittle use of figurative language. Their sentences wereusually simple and of two words, and I failed to convey orunderstand any but the simplest propositions. I determinedto put the thought of my Time Machine and the mysteryof the bronze doors under the sphinx as much as possiblein a corner of memory, until my growing knowledgewould lead me back to them in a natural way. Yet acertain feeling, you may understand, tethered me in acircle of a few miles round the point of my arrival.‘So far as I could see, all the world displayed the sameexuberant richness as the Thames valley. From every hill Iclimbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings,endlessly varied in material and style, the same clusteringthickets of evergreens, the same blossom-laden trees andtree-ferns. Here and there water shone like silver, andbeyond, the land rose into blue undulating hills, and sofaded into the serenity of the sky. A peculiar feature,which presently attracted my attention, was the presenceof certain circular wells, several, as it seemed to me, of a63 of 148