The Time Machine, H. G. Wells [highly illogical behavior TXT] 📗

thought of it. It'splain enough, and helps the paradox delightfully. We cannot seeit, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can thespoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air.If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred timesfaster than we are, if it gets through a minute while we getthrough a second, the impression it creates will of course beonly one-fiftieth or one-hundredth of what it would make if itwere not travelling in time. That's plain enough.' He passedhis hand through the space in which the machine had been. `Yousee?' he said, laughing.

We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so. Thenthe Time Traveller asked us what we thought of it all.

`It sounds plausible enough to-night,' said the Medical Man;'but wait until to-morrow. Wait for the common sense of themorning.'

`Would you like to see the Time Machine itself?' asked the TimeTraveller. And therewith, taking the lamp in his hand, he ledthe way down