Tales from Sniper's Rest

The Time Machine, Part 2


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Summary; A scientist who builds a time machine, travels to the year
802,701 AD and there encounters humanity's descendants – the childlike
Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks.


Word I had to look up in order to read this book;

- Dresden; a city in Germany.

- Phœnician; was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.

- Hypertrophied; excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells.

- Pagoda-like; A pagoda is an Asian tiered tower with multiple eaves common to Nepal, China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia.

- Cupola; a rounded dome forming or adorning a roof or ceiling.

- Languor; tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable.

- Furtively; in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively.

- Occidental; a native or inhabitant of the West.

- Monomania; exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing.

- Interpolated; insert (something of a different nature) into something else.

- Etiolated; having lost vigour or substance; feeble.

- Cicerone; a guide who gives information about places of interest to sightseers.

- Supposition; a belief held without proof or certain knowledge; an assumption or hypothesis.


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