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Updated: June 6, 2025

It used to be pleasant in the afternoon, after the day's work was done and before one went on with the evening's study how odd it would have seemed in the old time for a young man of the industrial class to be doing post-graduate work in sociology, and how much a matter of course it seems now! to walk out into the gardens of Lowchester House, and smoke a cigarette or so and let her talk ramblingly of the things that interested her. . . . Physically the Great Change did not do so very much to reinvigorate her she had lived in that dismal underground kitchen in Clayton too long for any material rejuvenescence she glowed out indeed as a dying spark among the ashes might glow under a draught of fresh air and assuredly it hastened her end.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet