study-fenders

Updated: June 25, 2025

For the space of a few hours you must figure the whole country dotted white with rustling papers placards everywhere vociferating the hurried lie for the day; men and women in trains, men and women eating and reading, men by study-fenders, people sitting up in bed, mothers and sons and daughters waiting for father to finish a million scattered people reading reading headlong or feverishly ready to read.

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