The Time Machine - International World History Project

The Time MachineeBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.thought of flight before exploration was even then in mymind. But I said to myself, ‘You are in for it now,’ and,feeling my way along the tunnel, I found the noise ofmachinery grow louder. Presently the walls fell away fromme, and I came to a large open space, and striking anothermatch, saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern, whichstretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light.The view I had of it was as much as one could see in theburning of a match.‘Necessarily my memory is vague. Great shapes like bigmachines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque blackshadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered fromthe glare. The place, by the by, was very stuffy andoppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood wasin the air. Some way down the central vista was a littletable of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal. TheMorlocks at any rate were carnivorous! Even at the time, Iremember wondering what large animal could havesurvived to furnish the red joint I saw. It was all veryindistinct: the heavy smell, the big unmeaning shapes, theobscene figures lurking in the shadows, and only waitingfor the darkness to come at me again! Then the matchburned down, and stung my fingers, and fell, a wrigglingred spot in the blackness.87 of 148