10.11.2025
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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 strength had gone, grat...
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.