Tag Archives: H.G. Wells

getting cozy with Ole’ Man Time

“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.” “I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice. “Of course you don’t!’ the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. ÔI … Continue reading

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no escape

The impossibility of dropping out? …. Our protest culture, whatever the historical precedents, be it baby boomers of Woodstock or back to the desert hermits and mystics of yore; whatever the worthiness of its aims, noble and earnest the approach … Continue reading

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edwardian divide

Some disquieting similarities between the Edwardian Age, the flowering of capitalism in the era of Thorstein Veblen, running into the tide of modernism and consumer culture ; and today’s dawn of post modernism on the cusp of the service economy … Continue reading

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camp david: spurning divine gifts…

Camp David Peace Accords. Almost all concessions were unnecessary. Begin could have walked away with a treaty without making any substantial concessions. Is this mere conjecture? Not at all, because on one of the most sensitive points of the negotiations, … Continue reading

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ufo: creating the mythology

BY Art Chantry: when i was a wee lad, i was totally into ufo’s. back in the mid/late sixties, i read all i could about them. i was fascinated by the whole phenomenon. i didn’t read science fiction books, i … Continue reading

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arm-chair prophet

Specific predictions; the fantastic future erupting right on schedule and in the blink of an eye what seemed so impossible we now come into contact with on a daily basis. Nonetheless, discerning particular trends have always been more a matter … Continue reading

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welles: frozen in the role of prodigy

Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading

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illusions of fiction

Orson Welles. The prodigy. It is only rarely that the child prodigy converts into an adult prodigy, in fact statistically not very promising, but Welles pierced the prodigal ordeal of circumstances into an association with real achievement. The crowning of … Continue reading

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as though paradise had never been lost

Christian theology projected beyond earth and man, a theology of the universe at the dawn of the space age was what C.S. Lewis was tapping into. ” as though Paradise had never been lost and earliest dreams were true, the … Continue reading

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utopia: machines triumphant

Utopians were prophets in the sense of predicting the future and also prophets in the sense of castigating the present; a vision of things as they should be was also a reproach to things as they are. One of the … Continue reading

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