Apropos of Dolores

Hardcover, 310 pages

English language

Published Oct. 3, 2001 by House of Stratus.

ISBN:
978-0-7551-0390-4
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A thoroughly enjoyable read, H.G.Wells always precisely manages to deliver the natural consciousness of relationships within changing eras. The narrative is finely told in a diarist method, allowing for hypocrisies to be revealed through written bias against scenarios and actions.

One of my favourite passages from this book, first published in 1938.

"I am, I realize, muddy-minded. My mind is not comprehensive enough and it is too congested by minor issues and impulsions, to take a clear view of existence. It is encumbered like a crystal trying to form in a magma loaded with irrelevant matter. But nevertheless it has a considerable apprehension of potentialities. The shape of the crystal, the form of this world is perceptible to me. It is common lot to be muddy-minded; I am muddy-minded, you are muddy-minded, he is muddy-minded; past, present and future indicative you can conjugate it; nevertheless I believe, that by getting …

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  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
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