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The Time Machine

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Set in A.D. 802,701 — humanity evolved into two species: Eloi and Morlocks.

Eloi — gentle, idle descendants of the bourgeoisie, living above ground.

Morlocks — subterranean workers, keepers of machinery, feeding on their former masters.

A Marxist fable of class exploitation carried to evolutionary extremes.

The time machine reveals future history as decay: entropy wins.

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  • The Time Machine
    Set in A.D. 802,701 — humanity evolved into two species: Eloi and Morlocks. Eloi — gentle, idle descendants of the bourgeoisie, living above ground.
    • is_parent The last sentence 🔒 ·
      And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and streng