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H. G. Wells
· The Time Machine
· Project Gutenberg
So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage. One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone—vanished! The Psychologist recovered from his stupor, and suddenly looked under the table.
A single candle flickers out, marking the moment when the model Time Machine pivots and dissolves into a spectral shimmer of brass and ivory. This fleeting transformation blurs the boundary between crafted artifact and ephemeral apparition, underscoring the fr...