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H. G. Wells
· The War of the Worlds
· Project Gutenberg
It has already been too long delayed.” I put out my hand and felt the meat chopper hanging to the wall. Before he was halfway across the kitchen I had overtaken him. With one last touch of humanity I turned the blade back and struck him with the butt.
The speaker's hand lingers on the meat chopper, an everyday kitchen tool transformed into an instrument of confrontation. The deliberate choice to strike with the blunt end rather than the blade introduces a charged moment of restraint amid the urgency. This g...