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H. G. Wells
· The Time Machine
· Project Gutenberg
‘No,’ said I stoutly to myself, ‘that was not the lawn.’ “But it _was_ the lawn. Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? “At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world.
The narrator's initial refusal to accept the lawn's reality gives way to a stark and painful acknowledgment, marked by a sudden, visceral shock. This moment of recognition disrupts the boundary between familiarity and estrangement, heightening the narrator's v...