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eldritchhobbit ([personal profile] eldritchhobbit) wrote2015-09-21 07:29 am
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Happy Birthday, H.G. Wells!

Happy birthday to H.G. Wells (21 September, 1866 – 13 August, 1946)!

Tea and Books I


“Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2015-09-21 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems a little odd that this Victorian author was alive - and, indeed, writing - well into my parents' lifetimes.

[identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com 2015-09-25 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It is hard to imagine, isn't it? He lived through - and significantly influenced - some very dramatic changes in the world.