And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder. A flash, and it came out vividly, heeling over one way with two feet in the air, to vanish and reappear almost instantly as it seemed, with the next flash, a hundred yards nearer. Can you imagine a milking stool tilted and bowled violently along the ground? That was the impression those instant flashes gave. But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand.
H. G. Wells (1898)
3 comments:
Indeed.
Excellent, thank you for that Martyn. I will read on some more - I checked the next one which seemed appropriate about school both then and now!
xkcd is excellent, though you probably have to be as least slightly into techie nerdery to appreciate a lot of it. Did you spot the hiden mouse-over joke? There's one on every cartoon ...
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