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Post by Thorgrimm on Dec 28, 2003 10:41:08 GMT
My favorite passage is thus; "for out of the tumult, drove something long and black, fire streaming out it's middle parts, it's funnels and ventilators spouting fire. SHE WAS ALIVE! the steering gear and engines were still working, she headed straight at the second Martian, and was within 100yards when the heat ray came to bear. Then with a blinding flash, her decks, her funnels leapt skyward. The Martian staggered with the force of the explosion, and in another moment the flaming wreckage, still driving forward with the impetus of it's pace, had struck him and crumpled him up like a piece of cardboard. Two shouted the captain!"
The reason i like this passage is because even though they knew they would die, the crew of the Thunder Child still took on the Martians to protect the refugees in the transport. As the saying goes about humanity, " when things are at it's worst, we are at our best."
Cheers Thorgrimm
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Post by Tripod on Dec 29, 2003 13:13:05 GMT
Yes I understand why that you liked this passage I found it very exciting to!
Tripod
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Post by Thunder Child on Dec 29, 2003 22:11:50 GMT
The Thunder Child Rules ;D
Johan
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Post by Tripod on Dec 31, 2003 16:24:58 GMT
Hahahaha! ;D
A real Dutchman!
Tripod
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Post by I own a cylinder on Jan 15, 2005 2:28:23 GMT
favorite line from the book:
'...it was such a gradual movement that he noticed it only by a black mark which had been near him five minuets ago, was now on the other side of the circufrence.'
It's such an omnious line.
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Post by Gnorn on Jan 15, 2005 12:13:33 GMT
Info and some MP3's from Oxymoron can be found here: Who are you calling an oxymoron? ;-) -Gnorn
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Post by apairon on Jun 29, 2005 17:37:07 GMT
Sorry to bump this old topic. Gotta mention this little jewel:
"Farther on was a tattered woman in a heap on a doorstep; the hand that hung over her knee was gashed and bled down her rusty brown dress, and a smashed magnum of champagne formed a pool across the pavement. She seemed asleep, but she was dead."
You can picture her suicide in the middle of London threatened by fighting machines and black smoke.
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Post by morden on Jun 30, 2005 19:21:43 GMT
I think that my favourite line has got to be the one from the Artilleryman,describing the difference in military might of our cannons and the Martian Heat Rays as "bows and arrows against the lightning."
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Post by Gnorn on Jun 30, 2005 19:55:10 GMT
I allways laugh where Wells describes how miss Elphinstone thinks the French look like Martians. Allways envision it as a hint at the dislike (so-to-speak, don't shoot me) between the Brits and French.
-Gnorn
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Post by Lensman on Jul 1, 2005 4:36:03 GMT
My favorite quote is from the very first page, a variant part of which (from a different edition?) someone quoted above.
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. ... Yet across the gulf of space... intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
A voice-over reading these lines is also the intro to the "Blues for a Red Planet" episode of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos", arguably the best science series ever made for TV.
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Post by apairon on Jul 1, 2005 6:58:04 GMT
Carl Sagans cosmos "Blues for a Red Planet". Thanks. Totally popular in the emule net it seems. Quite a number of "providers" for that file
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Post by insidethecylinder on Aug 8, 2005 17:51:11 GMT
" One night (the first missile then could scarcely have been 10,000,000 miles away) I went for a walk with my wife. It was starlight and I explained the Signs of the Zodiac to her, and pointed out Mars, a bright dot of light creeping zenithward, towards which so many telescopes were pointed. It was a warm night. Coming home, a party of excursionists from Chertsey or Isleworth passed us singing and playing music. There were lights in the upper windows of the houses as the people went to bed. From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance. My wife pointed out to me the brightness of the red, green, and yellow signal lights hanging in a framework against the sky. It seemed so safe and tranquil."
This is omnious, and the calm before the storm. Literally.
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Post by broton on Sept 24, 2005 22:54:55 GMT
A line that stood out as I started to reread WotW the other day: "Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims"
And a line that I have always liked: "The sun sank into grey clouds, the sky flushed and darkened, the evening star trembled into sight" [glow=orange,2,300]broton[/glow]
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Post by BrutalDeluxe on Sept 27, 2005 0:22:14 GMT
Apairon stole my thunder This would have to be one of my favorite passages "Farther on was a tattered woman in a heap on a doorstep; the hand that hung over her knee was gashed and bled down her rusty brown dress, and a smashed magnum of champagne formed a pool across the pavement. She seemed asleep, but she was dead." It is a great example of how so few words can give your imagination licence to complete this chilling picture. It is powerful in it's simplicity.
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Post by matzo on Sept 27, 2005 16:35:11 GMT
i like "No one would have belived......."
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