Full Transcript for We Are Evolving, Just Backwards! | The Time Machine (H.G. Wells) BOOK REVIEW

goes into various 29 00:02:21.595 --> 00:02:22.235 time periods. 30 00:02:22.849 --> 00:02:28.610 I believe he first goes into the time period of, like, roughly eight hundred thousand 31 00:02:29.569 --> 00:02:30.370 AD. 32 00:02:30.370 --> 00:02:32.370 So, you know, roughly 33 00:02:32.530 --> 00:02:40.345 eight hund... Maybe it was eight hundred and twenty thousand or something. So that... What would that be? That'd be, like, eight hundred and eighteen thousand in the future from where we are right now. 34 00:02:40.825 --> 00:02:41.465 And 35 00:02:41.944 --> 00:02:44.185 it's a rather interesting world. 36 00:02:44.905 --> 00:02:46.265 We have a 37 00:02:46.665 --> 00:02:47.385 a... 38 00:02:47.465 --> 00:02:51.944 Almost like a para... Paradise of sorts. It is... It does seem like a utopia. 39 00:02:52.450 --> 00:02:53.410 There's these 40 00:02:53.890 --> 00:03:00.850 descendants of humanity known as the Eloi, or he learns this... I'm not actually sure how he learns it. He just says that's what they're called 41 00:03:01.170 --> 00:03:02.130 midway through. 42 00:03:02.530 --> 00:03:03.090 And 43 00:03:03.569 --> 00:03:04.689 they're these kind of, like, 44 00:03:05.625 --> 00:03:06.265 small 45 00:03:06.745 --> 00:03:07.625 grayish 46 00:03:07.705 --> 00:03:12.665 grayish creatures. Are they gray? I can't remember what color they are. Very smooth, 47 00:03:12.985 --> 00:03:17.785 very frail creatures. They just like to laugh, play fun... Have fun, eat fruit, 48 00:03:18.830 --> 00:03:19.710 have sex, 49 00:03:19.950 --> 00:03:22.190 and that's about all they do with their lives. 50 00:03:22.830 --> 00:03:29.230 His time machine actually gets stolen on the very first day. And so he's he's kinda like, oh, shit. Am I stuck here? 51 00:03:29.630 --> 00:03:40.985 And he eventually figures out, oh, there's actually a... Another part of this world which is the part that kind of keeps the world running, stops it from decaying too much because they do have, like, sandals and clothes, 52 00:03:41.784 --> 00:03:42.265 and 53 00:03:44.025 --> 00:03:45.064 things seem to work. 54 00:03:45.870 --> 00:03:48.190 And he finds that there's actually an underground 55 00:03:48.590 --> 00:03:53.310 aspect to the world where the Morlocks live. And these are these kind of like rodent, 56 00:03:53.310 --> 00:03:55.790 rat like creatures, four feet in height, 57 00:03:56.350 --> 00:03:59.875 that are carnivorous. And they actually have this symbiotic 58 00:03:59.875 --> 00:04:01.795 relationship with their Eloi 59 00:04:01.795 --> 00:04:02.515 where... 60 00:04:02.755 --> 00:04:06.995 Well, is this symbiotic? Not sure it's... Because that implies there's some give and take. 61 00:04:07.475 --> 00:04:10.915 Oh, yeah. I guess so. Like, the Eloi provide their their flesh 62 00:04:11.475 --> 00:04:16.910 to the to the Morlocks who eat them. And the Morlocks provide, you know, all the boon of 63 00:04:18.270 --> 00:04:23.070 being able to, like, live a carefree existence apart from, you know, impending death. 64 00:04:23.550 --> 00:04:33.735 The time traveler eventually manages to escape that time period. He goes more into the future and he stops at various points where kind of the world is starting to decay. The the sun is 65 00:04:34.055 --> 00:04:36.695 turning into a supernova or it's expanding. 66 00:04:38.455 --> 00:04:39.175 Yep. 67 00:04:39.415 --> 00:04:45.010 Does all this and then he trans... Comes comes his way back into the past to explain his story. 68 00:04:45.730 --> 00:04:54.050 So, yeah, that's... I guess that's a synopsis and pretty much the whole book right there. So let's jump into, I suppose, some of the themes, what we can learn from this, 69 00:04:55.255 --> 00:04:57.735 what I found interesting in this. 70 00:04:58.615 --> 00:05:00.855 The the book itself 71 00:05:01.255 --> 00:05:02.615 touches upon 72 00:05:03.815 --> 00:05:08.294 social themes in aspect. And remember, this was written in 1895, 73 00:05:08.294 --> 00:05:09.335 so a fair while ago. 74 00:05:10.540 --> 00:05:14.140 I think it holds up relatively well in terms of 75 00:05:14.620 --> 00:05:16.460 ideas that it's exploring, 76 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:19.340 especially when it comes to regarding 77 00:05:19.420 --> 00:05:20.300 kind of 78 00:05:21.100 --> 00:05:24.460 so... Socialist themes. So there is aspects of this 79 00:05:25.785 --> 00:05:27.065 revolving around 80 00:05:27.385 --> 00:05:29.945 what would happen if 81 00:05:30.425 --> 00:05:37.785 society kind of bifurcates into, you know, the wealthy and the peasants, and how would this actually look in the future. 82 00:05:38.460 --> 00:05:39.100 Or, 83 00:05:39.980 --> 00:05:41.100 you know, if we 84 00:05:41.420 --> 00:05:44.700 take some ideas of evolution into account, 85 00:05:45.980 --> 00:05:49.500 would we actually be smarter? Would things be better? 86 00:05:49.900 --> 00:05:58.185 How would the world actually look? And he kind of has this little fun play of it, which is in the title of this, which is, like, we're evolving just backwards, 87 00:05:58.745 --> 00:05:59.865 which was, 88 00:06:00.345 --> 00:06:01.785 you know, implying that 89 00:06:02.104 --> 00:06:02.825 when 90 00:06:03.465 --> 00:06:05.065 society manages 91 00:06:05.305 --> 00:06:08.830 to kind of have these kind of separate branchings, 92 00:06:10.190 --> 00:06:11.389 the evolutionary 93 00:06:12.430 --> 00:06:22.845 case kind of rolls in over the centuries, millennia in this case. Or I don't know what's what's beyond millennia. You know? What's what's ten thousand years or a hundred thousand years? 94 00:06:23.245 --> 00:06:29.485 That is when we get to this aspect of, okay. Yeah. The Morlocks, the people who are living underground, the kind of peasants, the 95 00:06:30.205 --> 00:06:30.925 the 96 00:06:31.245 --> 00:06:32.205 underclass, 97 00:06:32.205 --> 00:06:36.820 if you wanna call them that, the working class, they develop into 98 00:06:38.020 --> 00:06:42.340 their their

situation. So they aren't able to see well in the light. 99 00:06:43.300 --> 00:06:46.419 They're this kind of pale ghostly gray color. 100 00:06:46.660 --> 00:06:47.300 They... 101 00:06:47.699 --> 00:06:56.245 I'm not... Yeah. They they kind of consume any and all nutrients that they can get from underground, so then they have to take what's above ground. 102 00:06:56.485 --> 00:07:01.045 And the... On the opposite end, so that's the Morlocks and the opposite end, the Eloi, 103 00:07:01.285 --> 00:07:01.925 they 104 00:07:02.245 --> 00:07:06.165 become so frail because they don't have to work anymore more. They 105 00:07:06.940 --> 00:07:14.780 live... They become stupid because they don't need to think anymore because everything is provided to them by the the Morlocks who are certainly more 106 00:07:14.940 --> 00:07:16.540 intelligent of the two. 107 00:07:17.340 --> 00:07:27.884 So it is this kinda interesting idea of, okay, you would expect evolution to kind of, like, make things better in a sense, but that's not really what evolution does. Evolution just 108 00:07:28.764 --> 00:07:42.190 changes you and and adapts you to environment. So there certainly is a case to be made that evolution won't make us smarter. It it could make us dumber if the environment changes so that this is what is being selected for. 109 00:07:42.590 --> 00:07:51.365 So we kind of have this, I guess, interesting idea of, okay. Yeah. We're evolving just backwards, which is a PewDiePie meme for those who are 110 00:07:51.844 --> 00:07:53.044 up to date with that. 111 00:07:53.444 --> 00:07:54.085 And 112 00:07:54.645 --> 00:07:56.565 it touches, I guess, upon 113 00:07:57.044 --> 00:08:01.284 other social themes. You know, this was the time when kind of communism 114 00:08:01.490 --> 00:08:03.490 or socialism, 115 00:08:03.490 --> 00:08:04.930 like, the isms were 116 00:08:05.890 --> 00:08:13.090 first really being hashed out. They hadn't really been tested wide wide scale, large scale amongst society. So there was 117 00:08:13.595 --> 00:08:14.395 curiosity 118 00:08:14.395 --> 00:08:21.035 as to what would things look like, how would things change, how would capitalism change, or all the isms change. 119 00:08:21.355 --> 00:08:36.780 So it touches upon that, but thankfully, it's not a large section of the book. You can just read this as a as a fun, interesting read of, oh, yeah. What would happen? You do have to suspend a lot of belief in certain aspects, and this is 120 00:08:37.420 --> 00:08:39.980 probably one of the first books which had this 121 00:08:41.045 --> 00:08:42.805 fantasy 122 00:08:42.805 --> 00:08:45.205 realism to it or scientific 123 00:08:45.845 --> 00:08:48.005 sci fi, science fiction 124 00:08:48.725 --> 00:08:50.885 in the sense that he, 125 00:08:51.765 --> 00:08:53.845 you know, has ideas of biology, 126 00:08:54.165 --> 00:08:54.645 of 127 00:08:55.125 --> 00:08:55.525 evolution, 128 00:08:57.010 --> 00:08:57.650 of 129 00:08:59.410 --> 00:09:02.370 what's gonna happen to the solar system, to the sun itself, 130 00:09:02.530 --> 00:09:07.330 to the environment of the planet as we jump forward into large periods of time. 131 00:09:08.545 --> 00:09:10.145 But then, you know, also... 132 00:09:10.545 --> 00:09:11.105 And 133 00:09:11.585 --> 00:09:18.865 this... You know, kind of suspending belief or disbelief on, okay, if you're time traveling through time, 134 00:09:19.185 --> 00:09:20.305 how is he able to see 135 00:09:21.290 --> 00:09:24.730 various aspects of the past? How is he able to change his time? 136 00:09:25.050 --> 00:09:25.769 Why... 137 00:09:25.930 --> 00:09:27.850 You know, what's the chances of him 138 00:09:28.970 --> 00:09:36.995 traveling? Like, if he's starting from a fixed point, which it kind of says that he does because his time machine gets moved, so when he goes back into the past, 139 00:09:37.315 --> 00:09:38.275 his... He... 140 00:09:38.515 --> 00:09:44.355 His time machine is, like, at the northeast corner of the room rather than the southwest corner of the room. 141 00:09:45.154 --> 00:09:54.740 How is how is he able to, like, that location be able to change yet the Earth is revolving around the sun, so it's not in a fixed 142 00:09:55.380 --> 00:10:01.460 place in time or a fixed point of space, for example? So you do... You know, it's it's kinda funny because 143 00:10:02.415 --> 00:10:03.375 he takes 144 00:10:03.695 --> 00:10:12.175 some scientific ideas and uses that, but then also he doesn't explain a lot and a lot of stuff doesn't make sense. So you kinda have to 145 00:10:12.895 --> 00:10:14.175 be willing to 146 00:10:15.135 --> 00:10:16.175 suspend 147 00:10:16.460 --> 00:10:18.540 belief in many aspects 148 00:10:18.860 --> 00:10:25.660 for this book to work. I think it works well because it does incorporate aspects of reality into it. 149 00:10:26.700 --> 00:10:26.940 Yet, 150 00:10:28.555 --> 00:10:38.555 you know, there is this... These questions do arise, but if you're if you're reading it, I guess, properly in a sense, I think you just go, whatever. Like, this cool story. I wanna see where he goes next. 151 00:10:40.555 --> 00:10:43.995 And he certainly leaves a lot to 152 00:10:45.060 --> 00:10:46.500 be curious about. 153 00:10:47.139 --> 00:10:53.779 For example, he goes into the future beyond the Eloi and Morlocks. I'm not sure I'm pronouncing that right, but the... 154 00:10:54.740 --> 00:10:56.740 There's, like, this black blobbish 155 00:10:57.505 --> 00:10:58.385 shape 156 00:10:58.545 --> 00:11:03.024 coming in and out of the ocean at some point. And these crab like things that 157 00:11:03.425 --> 00:11:07.024 start to descend upon him, and he has to... There was a pretty cool 158 00:11:08.225 --> 00:11:11.584 moment in the book. There was a a phrase which I really enjoyed. 159 00:11:12.180 --> 00:11:21.620 So he jumps into, like, the the future and he's talking about, like, how these crab things, one of them comes up

onto him. 160 00:11:22.820 --> 00:11:25.140 And then he... And I think the the phrase was something like, 161 00:11:25.765 --> 00:11:35.285 I quickly put a hundred years between him and I as if it was like, you know, I put some distance or had had my guns up, you know, took a step back or I, you know, unsheathed 162 00:11:35.285 --> 00:11:36.005 my sword. 163 00:11:36.485 --> 00:11:40.245 I just like the phrase that he that he put that in. I I found it very interesting. So, 164 00:11:41.300 --> 00:11:42.420 yeah, we went... 165 00:11:42.580 --> 00:11:45.540 It would be hard to find that right in the moment. I forgot to actually 166 00:11:45.860 --> 00:11:46.740 do this. 167 00:11:47.300 --> 00:11:50.020 The other cool aspect of the book, I think, was 168 00:11:52.100 --> 00:11:55.620 how it was structured in the sense that 169 00:11:56.875 --> 00:12:02.395 it was set up with this... You... We're not... We're kind of viewing the time... We we switch between 170 00:12:03.115 --> 00:12:03.915 people... 171 00:12:04.075 --> 00:12:08.555 Normal people who are just entering his house and having food with him and him explaining the concept. 172 00:12:09.050 --> 00:12:13.529 The first person account of him being in the future. And then when he jumps back, 173 00:12:14.329 --> 00:12:15.690 it's it's this 174 00:12:16.410 --> 00:12:19.209 really interesting aspect where he is now 175 00:12:20.089 --> 00:12:31.495 explaining this all to him. And then we realize, like, this literally just happened because it feels like, you know, the story that is in the future. It seems in the some some aspect, like, this has already happened 176 00:12:31.655 --> 00:12:32.695 long ago 177 00:12:33.815 --> 00:12:39.320 even though it's in the future. So, like, we say, like, a long time ago, but but even though he's in the future, 178 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:44.840 you know, he's he's transported eight hundred thousand years and then he comes back. 179 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.040 And so we've... We have this feeling of distance between it. 180 00:12:48.865 --> 00:12:49.505 Yet, 181 00:12:49.824 --> 00:12:52.305 he explains all of this to them and then he's like, 182 00:12:52.625 --> 00:12:56.385 and, you know, here we are now. I literally just stepped out of the time machine 183 00:12:57.505 --> 00:13:04.970 and walked out of this room, and here you guys all are. I found that really cool where it was just like, oh, shit. Like, this just happened. Like, this guy... 184 00:13:05.370 --> 00:13:14.810 How is he able to, like, so calmly explain his story? And it explains why he... He's so hungry and makes them wait first because he's just been eating fruit for the, you know, the past 185 00:13:16.635 --> 00:13:20.555 in his... From his time frame, his time perspective, 186 00:13:20.715 --> 00:13:22.555 I think he's there about two weeks. 187 00:13:22.795 --> 00:13:25.915 That... It sounds like that's that's about the the right time period. 188 00:13:27.890 --> 00:13:33.330 Or perhaps it is the... Maybe it is a week which because there... I think there was, like, a week between the dinners. 189 00:13:33.650 --> 00:13:34.610 In any case, 190 00:13:35.250 --> 00:13:41.250 there was... There's quite a few aspects of this book where I went, ah, I see why this book is kind of well renowned as a 191 00:13:42.334 --> 00:13:43.455 as a classic 192 00:13:44.014 --> 00:13:51.615 because he does introduce these interesting aspects to it. I forgot to mention. It's a real... Really short book. It's 100 and... Less than a 100 pages 193 00:13:52.495 --> 00:13:59.810 even including, like, the epilogue and the notes and stuff. So you can get through this really quickly. I personally got through it rather 194 00:13:59.970 --> 00:14:00.690 quickly. 195 00:14:01.329 --> 00:14:05.649 Jumping on to the actual author himself, h g Wells. He was a 196 00:14:05.889 --> 00:14:07.810 pretty unique, interesting guy as well. 197 00:14:09.475 --> 00:14:10.355 This was... 198 00:14:10.675 --> 00:14:11.875 He was a writer. 199 00:14:11.955 --> 00:14:13.635 Seemed like he had a kind of 200 00:14:14.355 --> 00:14:16.755 backstory of, like, the classic English 201 00:14:17.154 --> 00:14:19.315 going to a boarding house type thing, 202 00:14:19.875 --> 00:14:25.000 playing rugby or cricket, having some sort of injury, not really being good at any other things, and then 203 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:29.960 being one of the lucky ones to kind of escape the drudgery of of, 204 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:32.120 you know, late eighteen hundreds 205 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:34.280 England 206 00:14:34.280 --> 00:14:49.305 of, you know, working the coal mines, for example, or or or these sorts of things, and making it as a... An author and a... And as a writer. So we have covered one of his books on this channel before, The Food of the Gods, which I quite enjoyed as well. I liked 207 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:54.160 particularly one of the characters in that book who had this kind of stoic English 208 00:14:54.880 --> 00:15:02.480 philosophy to him, and we see this a lot with the characters in this book where there's this, you know... No one's, like, losing their mind or 209 00:15:03.885 --> 00:15:08.765 going crazy about this. They're either very skeptical of his story or even his 210 00:15:09.085 --> 00:15:11.885 version of the events are this rather stoic, 211 00:15:12.125 --> 00:15:20.620 you know, just stepping out of the time machine and then explaining your your story calmly while, like, you'd... Having just eaten some food and and smoking your pipe. 212 00:15:21.339 --> 00:15:25.259 So he does have this really interesting aspect of characters. 213 00:15:25.259 --> 00:15:26.860 He's he's quite good at that. 214 00:15:27.899 --> 00:15:32.775 I'm not sure there's that much else to... You know, he was born in 1866. 215 00:15:33.975 --> 00:15:35.175 Has seemed to have... 216 00:15:35.575 --> 00:15:41.255 He's got quite a few other books. The Island of Doctor Moreau, The

Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds. So 217 00:15:42.950 --> 00:15:50.790 bunch of these we haven't reviewed on this channel before, but perhaps at some point, I'll get to them. I probably will because I do like these kinds of books. 218 00:15:51.190 --> 00:15:52.230 And he was a very... 219 00:15:54.404 --> 00:15:57.925 Pessimistic is the other thing to really take from this book. 220 00:15:58.884 --> 00:16:01.524 It's not a hopeful future 221 00:16:01.605 --> 00:16:02.964 of humanity. 222 00:16:03.685 --> 00:16:06.884 It's it's a condemnation somewhat of 223 00:16:07.310 --> 00:16:16.590 our own drives and instincts and that he saw at the time. And he's saying, like, if we take these to further extremes, this is what's gonna end up with us. 224 00:16:17.550 --> 00:16:24.335 You know, our desire for pleasure and and things like this will will turn portions of us into the Eloi. 225 00:16:24.495 --> 00:16:28.175 Our desire for, like, hunger, growth, capitalism, 226 00:16:28.175 --> 00:16:29.135 things like this, 227 00:16:29.774 --> 00:16:31.055 you know, barbarity. 228 00:16:31.055 --> 00:16:33.855 Our barbaric side will turn us into the Morlocks. 229 00:16:34.015 --> 00:16:38.460 So he's certainly not very hopeful, and I think 230 00:16:38.860 --> 00:16:41.500 he lived long enough to see 231 00:16:42.140 --> 00:16:46.780 World War one for sure and I believe World War two. 232 00:16:47.900 --> 00:16:48.380 So, 233 00:16:49.154 --> 00:16:50.274 yeah, he was... 234 00:16:51.235 --> 00:16:53.475 Yeah. He did see World War two as well. So 235 00:16:55.875 --> 00:16:59.795 he lived through a pretty extreme time period of of, 236 00:17:00.995 --> 00:17:02.755 what would you call it, demolition, 237 00:17:02.755 --> 00:17:07.789 destruction of of humanity and, you know, being in England, he would have seen a lot of this as well. 238 00:17:08.430 --> 00:17:09.070 So 239 00:17:09.390 --> 00:17:11.870 even though this book was written well before 240 00:17:12.830 --> 00:17:22.315 those those aspects, we we certainly can see that, okay, yeah, you know, his general outlook for for humanity wasn't wasn't too wasn't too great. 241 00:17:23.355 --> 00:17:28.794 Yeah. So in in summary, I guess, of h g Wells, the similar book recommendations, 242 00:17:29.835 --> 00:17:36.649 it's a solid read. Once again, I I quite enjoyed reading through it. It took these aspects of time traveling 243 00:17:36.889 --> 00:17:37.609 to... 244 00:17:37.850 --> 00:17:44.809 I think it's worth reading if you... If you're interested at time travel at all and seeing one of the first ways it was presented, 245 00:17:46.025 --> 00:17:52.664 especially in, like, a machine type aspect of the time machine. Once again, it's called the time machine, not the time traveler. 246 00:17:52.825 --> 00:17:55.144 So it does have this aspect of 247 00:17:56.265 --> 00:17:56.825 using 248 00:17:57.880 --> 00:17:58.840 science 249 00:17:58.919 --> 00:18:03.320 and the scien... Not scientific method, but the general principles of 250 00:18:04.280 --> 00:18:05.639 logic and reasoning, 251 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:11.320 applying it to the future, and then somewhat distorting it to be able to make, like, an interesting story from it. So 252 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:13.720 I 253 00:18:12.835 --> 00:18:15.955 can see why this is so popular and why 254 00:18:16.995 --> 00:18:24.915 it's not very much, like, reference to this day. I don't think I've really heard many people in real life talk about Eloi and Morlocks, 255 00:18:24.915 --> 00:18:25.075 and 256 00:18:26.870 --> 00:18:31.909 I didn't even get into, like, the religious symbolism that is somewhat associated with those two. 257 00:18:32.390 --> 00:18:34.149 But I have read, 258 00:18:34.149 --> 00:18:39.990 you know, plenty plenty of things referring to this as one of, like, the goat sci fi books of 259 00:18:40.784 --> 00:18:43.024 thinking about the future and implying 260 00:18:43.745 --> 00:18:56.679 what's gonna happen in the future, adding that scientific element to it. So if you want to really have one of the first tastes of what sci fi was like, you know, The Time Machine by HG Wells is a good place to start. 261 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.399 What will I give it? I 262 00:18:59.399 --> 00:19:03.080 don't know. Like, four and a half out of 10? Like, it's good, but I 263 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:16.255 I... I'm I'm glad I read it, but it's it's not like a memorable book for me either other than that little quote. And one in the chat is like, yeah. Dang. That's a good quote. He likes it as well. 264 00:19:18.415 --> 00:19:23.775 There's not that much else to really take from it. It is very similar in the style to 265 00:19:25.090 --> 00:19:27.009 some other books such as 266 00:19:27.970 --> 00:19:30.690 Jules Verne, which we've covered here as well. 267 00:19:31.169 --> 00:19:32.210 Things like 268 00:19:33.650 --> 00:19:36.450 the journey to the center of the earth, things like that 269 00:19:37.035 --> 00:19:39.755 around the world in... Is it eighty days? 270 00:19:40.795 --> 00:19:47.995 Those books have the similar feeling of adventure, of fun, excitement with a little bit of danger, but not too much. 271 00:19:48.395 --> 00:19:51.035 You are... And bad things do happen in the book. 272 00:19:51.690 --> 00:19:52.649 Weena. 273 00:19:53.049 --> 00:20:01.289 Weena. I didn't even mention Weena. That's really bad of me. She's one of the Eloi who kind of, like, falls in love with him in a certain sense or is, like, smitten by him. 274 00:20:02.649 --> 00:20:07.804 Her... She doesn't she doesn't get a good ending in this. So it does... It's not like a 275 00:20:09.164 --> 00:20:13.084 a, like, a real happy one as well. There is danger. Bad things do happen. 276 00:20:14.445 --> 00:20:15.084 And 277 00:20:15.804 --> 00:20:21.559 that grittiness to it, I I think, is a a nice element to to add to the book as well. So, yes, 278 00:20:21.800 --> 00:20:24.519 whereas if you if you take like a

Jules Verne book, 279 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:27.880 bad things happen in it, but you don't get the... 280 00:20:28.280 --> 00:20:31.640 Like, I feel like the same grittiness that that this one has. 281 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:33.640 Where 282 00:20:34.040 --> 00:20:38.274 you are unsure, like, are things gonna end out well for the time traveler? 283 00:20:38.515 --> 00:20:46.835 It... You're you're kind of unsure. And I don't want to spoil the ending, but there is a little bit of a cliff note of a cliffhanger. 284 00:20:47.315 --> 00:20:54.580 What what what has happened to him? Because something does happen to him right at the end of the book as well. So quite interesting. 285 00:20:54.740 --> 00:20:55.860 Decent read. 286 00:20:56.260 --> 00:21:00.259 Nevertheless, I'm not gonna, like, love it as well. Like, I won't be 287 00:21:00.820 --> 00:21:02.740 saying, like, this is the greatest book ever. 288 00:21:03.460 --> 00:21:16.034 Jumping on. Value for Value. If you got some value from this podcast, please return it in some shape or form. I'd love to know your thoughts on books like this. Would you rather be an Eloie or a Morlock? Which one will you turn into if you if 289 00:21:16.195 --> 00:21:18.595 you were given a infinite time span and 290 00:21:18.835 --> 00:21:26.970 and could live like that? And have you read any other time travel books like this or any other works by HG Wells? Would would love to know all of that. 291 00:21:27.690 --> 00:21:36.090 You can reach out via many of the different platforms. I am trying to livestream on many different places at the moment. So we got Twitch, YouTube, and Instagram 292 00:21:36.945 --> 00:21:41.345 right up at the moment. And I do intend to be doing these 11AM 293 00:21:41.345 --> 00:21:43.984 Australian Eastern Standard Time on a Wednesday, 294 00:21:44.945 --> 00:21:45.664 barring 295 00:21:46.465 --> 00:21:47.184 many, 296 00:21:47.265 --> 00:21:58.179 many problems with my audio stream and my livestream setup. So probably more of that to continue until I really get it locked in because this always happens when you when you start getting into them again. 297 00:21:58.660 --> 00:22:01.860 What's coming up next? Oh, man. So I'm reading this book, 298 00:22:02.420 --> 00:22:03.860 Debt by David Graeber. 299 00:22:04.635 --> 00:22:09.595 It's it's interesting. I do enjoy it, but it's pretty heavy and thick. So 300 00:22:10.075 --> 00:22:15.115 I have the feeling I'm gonna have to read another kind of small, short ish book in the in the meantime. 301 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:25.639 And I don't really wanna dive into the... All the stuff I read recently. I would... I'd I'd like to try and keep those just as as emergency backups, if you will. 302 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:35.595 So I've got a couple of finance books over there sort of about investing. So, yeah, I might I might go through one of those and and that'll be up for next week. So, 303 00:22:35.915 --> 00:22:43.275 yeah, I really hope you're enjoying one. Also comes out with book reviews pretty often. So... But here's not live. Those are 304 00:22:43.595 --> 00:22:44.395 prerecorded ones. 305 00:22:44.995 --> 00:22:50.275 And, yeah, do hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are in the world. Ciao for now. Kyra now.