Tales from Sniper's Rest

The Time Machine, Part 4


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Book 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.


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

- Interminable; endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically).

- Malign; evil in nature or effect.

- Carloviginan; The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family.

- Estuary; the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.

- Diminution; a reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something.

- Immemorial; originating in the distant past; very old.

- Steatite; a massive talc having a grayish-green or brown color; soapstone.

- Exultation; a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.

- Contrivance; the use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality.

- Rarefied; (of air, especially that at high altitudes) of lower pressure than usual; thin.

- Gynæceum; most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.


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