góry-i-pustynie: The Time Machine

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The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel intentionally and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device. Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells's text focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Traveller's journey into the far future. A work of future history and speculative evolution, The Time Mac…

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Book Review: The two-mile time machine: ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future

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Our Time Machine. Distributed by Passion River Films, 154 Mt. Bethel Rd., Warren, NJ 07059; 732-321-0711Produced by S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun, Jean Tsien, Sally Jo Fifer, and Nick FraserDirected by S. Leo Chiang and Yang Sun2019, Streaming, 81 mins “Things in your life change drastically, as if someone swapped them when you weren’t paying attention.” Every family has a story. That tale is unique and individual, unable to be replicated in its entirety. People’s lives are intertwined with feelings, thoughts, actions, and memories. These are the items we carry with us over the years that make us feel whole. Over time, fractures undoubtedly occur, and things begin to slip through the cracks. When…

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H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine: Tales of Time and Space. With H. G. Wells, the very act of plotting a story organised time in the most immediate, proximate context of the writer’s own existence. As Paul Ricœur would argue, emplotment became a way of reflecting and reordering a dislocated sense of modern existence. H. G. Wells’ revelling in the exploration of other periods in the future apparently disguises the line of the plot and the intimate journey of the narrator. But the plot in Wells is key to his political reflections and his desire to educate in the 20th century. Certainly, the distancing effect of time travel is challenging for Wells’ narrator. But while the future and the present of…

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The Time Traveller Returns. I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller’s words, we should have shown him far less scepticism. For we should have perceived his motives: a pork-butcher could understand Filby. But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him. Things that would have made the fame of a less clever man seemed t…

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The Time Traveller’s Return. ‘ So I came back. For a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine. The blinking succession of the days and nights was resumed, the sun got golden again, the sky blue. I breathed with greater freedom. The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed. The hands spun backward upon the dials. At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity. These, too, changed and passed, and others came. Presently, when the million dial was at zero, I slackened speed. I began to recognize our own petty and familiar architecture, the thousands hand ran back to the starting-point, the night and day flapped slower and slower. Then th…

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Time Travelling. ‘ I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it’s sound enough. I expected to finish it on Friday; but on Friday, when the putting together was nearly done, I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this I had to get re-made; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. It was at ten o’clock to-day that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop…

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The Time Machine is a 2002 American post-apocalyptic science fiction action adventure film loosely adapted by John Logan from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells and the 1960 film of the same name by George Pal and David Duncan. Arnold Leibovit served as executive producer, and Simon Wells, the great-grandson of the original author, served as director. The film stars Guy Pearce, Orlando Jones, Samantha Mumba in her film debut, Mark Addy, and Jeremy Irons, and includes a cameo by Alan Young, who also appeared in the 1960 film adaptation. The film is set in New York City instead of London. It contains new story elements not present in the original novel or the 1960 film adaptation,…

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A time machine is a fictional or hypothetical device that allows time travel. The term itself first appeared in fiction, in the 1895 novel The Time Machine. The physical basis for hypothetical time machines appear in discussions of solutions to the equations of general relativity.

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