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...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance By H.G. Wells CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHA... ...eddy. “My sakes!” And he proceeded to give Hall a vivid description of his grotesque guest. “Looks a bit like a disguise, don’t it? I’ d like to see a... ...f I cannot tell you all that I have done to-night. But I am worn out. It’s grotesque, no doubt. It’s horrible! But believe me, Kemp, in spite of your ... ...; for to eat, to fill myself with unassimilated matter, would be to become grotesquely visible again.” “I never thought of that,” said Kemp. “Nor had ... ...out a wig, mask, spectacles, and costume, and go into the world, perhaps a grotesque but still a credible figure. And inciden- tally of course I could... ... I could vanish again. Finally I chose a mask of the better type, slightly grotesque but not more so than many human beings, dark glasses, greyish whi... ...nt of view to discover any forgotten chink, but it all seemed sound. I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a... ...t had just happened. They stood on the landing, Kemp speaking swiftly, the grotesque swathings of Griffin still on his arm. But presently Adye be- gan...

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.......................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE..................................................................... .... Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Anderson’s small-town “grotesques,” I felt that he was opening for me new depths of experience, to... ...th, and at its best it is a terrible if narrow truth—but it is itself also grotesque, with 9 Winesburg, Ohio the tone of the authorial voice and the ... ... mad by the search for human connection. In the economy of Winesburg these grotesques matter less in their own right than as agents or symptoms of tha... ... condition, something deeply set in our natures. Nor are these people, the grotesques, simply to be pit- ied and dismissed; at some point in their liv... ... truth escapes.” Yet what do we have but words? They want, these Winesburg grotesques*, to unpack their hearts, to release emotions buried and festeri... ...l notice in these stories a recurrent pattern of theme and inci- dent: the grotesques, gathering up a little cour- age, venture out into the streets o... ...Willard, the young reporter who hasn’t yet lived long enough to be- come a grotesque. Hesitantly, fearfully, or with a sputtering incoherent rage, the... ...lage at the year’s end [which may open] the lips of the old man.” What the grotesques really need is each other, but their estrangement is so extreme ...

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...man’s brow cast a black line of shadow on the upper part of the face. This grotesque effect, though natural, threw into relief by contrast the white f... ...ht of its sublime horror, while the least charm was its resemblance to the grotesques which artists amuse themselves by sketching on a corner of the l... ...erville read the words, “Fancy Goods.” The windows were all mismatched and grotesquely placed. The ground floor, which seemed to be the habitable part... ...o his traveling compan- ion, “look at that old fellow. Isn’t he like those grotesque carved figures we get from Germany? And it is alive, perhaps it i...

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...ung down their pens, men talking in a thousand places suddenly came upon a grotesque possibility in those words, “It is nearer.” It hurried along wake... ...there were beautiful figures, strange dragons, and intricate and wonderful grotesques bear- ing lights. The place was inundated with artificial light ... ...able value, and his infrequent words were carved and wrought into heraldic grotesqueness. Holroyd tried to elucidate his religious beliefs, and—especi... ...ne!” “Bogota! Put down that spade and come off the grass!” The last order, grotesque in its urban familiarity, produced a gust of anger. “I’ll hurt yo...

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...matter of fact, there are no very trustworthy connections of ours. It is a grotesque and unprecedented position.” “It is,” said Isbister. “As a matter... ...ormer fight, it seemed, had suddenly dropped out of sound and hearing. And—grotesque thought!—they were fighting for him! For a space he was like a ma... ...f eye and mind, into “Here is Eadhamite,” or, “Labour Bureau—Little Side?” Grotesque thought, that in all probability some or all of these cliff-like ... ...e,” and she indicated her eyelid. Graham had an adventurous moment. Then a grotesque memory of a picture he had somewhere seen of Uncle T oby and the ... ... without any strength of modelling or drawing, for the most part intricate grotesques or the ringing of the changes on a geometrical motif. These work... ...a little room where this proclamation of his was to be made. This room was grotesquely latter-day in its appointments. In the centre was a bright oval... ...dressed himself to the unseen multitudes who stared upon him through those grotesque black eyes. At first he spoke slowly. “Men and women of the new a...

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...tephenson of the steam-engine. And surely of all honoured names none is so grotesquely and tragically honoured as poor Filmer’s, the timid, intellectu... ...e found himself doubting whether his memory might not have played him some grotesque trick, debating whether any of these things could possibly have h... ...there were beautiful figures, strange dragons, and intricate and wonderful grotesques bear- ing lights. The place was inundated with artificial light ...

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... figure, now small in the distance, from his eyes. Then suddenly something grotesque struck him, and he laughed. Then he remarked, “It is really very ... ...able value, and his infrequent words were carved and wrought into heraldic grotesqueness. Holroyd tried to elucidate his religious beliefs, and—especi... ...nge reddish dawn in the interminable night of space? The cloud’s shape was grotesque. It seemed to be looped along its lower side into four projecting... ... bend, the tentacles, and the large intelligent eyes, gave the creatures a grotesque suggestion of a face. They were the size of a fair-sized swine ab... ...microscope he began making a hasty sketch of it. His mind was full of this grotesque puzzle in ethics that had suddenly been sprung upon him. Should h... ...ime that they might represent a diur- nal species of bat. Then he thought, grotesquely enough, that they might be cherubs. Their heads were round and ... ...ung down their pens, men talking in a thousand places suddenly came upon a grotesque possibility in those words, “It is nearer.” It hurried along awak... ...there were beautiful figures, strange dragons, and intricate and wonderful grotesques bear- ing lights. The place was inundated with artificial light ... ...e!” “Bogota! Put down that spade, and come off the grass!” The last order, grotesque in its urban familiarity, produced a gust of anger. “I’ll hurt yo...

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...did not understand. I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movement— a grotesque one. “You do not comprehend?” he said. “Not I,” I replied. “The...

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...ing taste which had given character to the mas- queraders. Be sure they were grotesque. There were much glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm mu...

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... they, and yet every- body must be charmed with the picture. It is full of grotesque beauty. The artist has at the back of his own skull, we are certa... ...s one without a certain pity for it, and imparting to the figure a certain grotesque grace. In happy schoolboys he revels; plum-pudding and holidays h... ...o illus- trate these tales, and give them just the proper admixture of the grotesque, the wonderful, and the graceful. May all Mother Bunch’s collecti... ...g, trampling, twisting, scuffling at the door, is in the best style of the grotesque. Y ou see but the back of most of these gentlemen; into which, ne... ...; quack dandies, who assume under his pencil, perhaps in his eye, the most grotesque ap- pearance possible—their hats grow larger, their legs infinite...

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...through the hatchway, looking back, still astonished beyond measure at the grotesque ugliness of this black-faced creature. I had never beheld such a ... ...edge. I fancied while we were still far off that I saw some other and very grotesque-looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I s... ...rupted my tangle of mystification and suspicion about one o’clock, and his grotesque attendant followed him with a tray bearing bread, some herbs and ... ... cloth, and was of a copper- coloured hue, with black hair. It seemed that grotesque ugli- ness was an invariable character of these islanders. I coul... ...rabbit vanishing up the slope. I jumped to my feet. The apparition of this grotesque, half- bestial creature had suddenly populated the stillness of t... ...d ruins of a huge fallen tree and still unaware of my approach, were three grotesque human figures. One was evidently a female; the other two were men... .... Sa- liva dripped from their lipless mouths. Suddenly, as I watched their grotesque and unaccountable gestures, I perceived clearly for the first tim... ...I had heard his name, I had been trying to link in my mind in some way the grotesque animalism of the islanders with his abominations; and now I thoug... ...ave imagined I was already dead and in another world. That dark hut, these grotesque dim figures, just flecked here and there by a glimmer of light, a...

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...owds the courtyard and pours 8 Floor Games out upon the roadway. Note the grotesque plasticine mon- sters who guard the portals, also by G. P . W ., ... ...arge of a child with a plasticine head. The landlord of the inn is a small grotesque figure of plaster; his sign is fastened on by a pin. No doubt the...

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...ith this primitive Aristophanic comedy, wherein the comic is capped by the grotesque, irony tips the wit, and satire is a naked sword. They have the b... ... in society are to him, by the vivid comparison with their mortality, more grotesque than respectable. But ask yourself, Is he always to be relied on ... ...urist and Satirist frequently hunt together as Ironeists in pursuit of the grotesque, to the exclusion of the Comic. That was an affecting moment in t... ..., as well as individually, when they are excited they are in danger of the grotesque, as when, for instance, they decline to listen to evidence, and r...

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...dly had he mentioned the woman he was seeking when Signor Giardini, with a grotesque shrug, looked knowingly at his customer, a bland smile on his lip... ...d in Gambara’s mild and melancholy gaze. After expecting to see one of the grotesque figures so often set before us by German novelists and writers of... ...nything quite so crazy. To keep a decent countenance he turned away from a grotesque bed, contrived by the ingenious cook in the case of an old harpsi... ...ay, and turning to the Count, “in this picturesque and vivid music—abrupt, grotesque, or melancholy, but always grand—the complete expression of the l... ...iating to the least sensitive ear. It is difficult to give any idea of the grotesque performance. New words would be needed to describe this impossibl...

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...gable ends to the street; great bow windows, with diamond panes set in lead, grotesque carvings, and low arched door ways. In this most venerable and ...

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...ommon about the sand pits was visible. Across the light huge black shapes, grotesque and strange, moved busily to and fro. It seemed indeed as if the ... ...away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic. And from this paper my brother read... ...or that horrible privilege of sight. We would race across the kitchen in a grotesque way between eagerness and the dread of mak- ing a noise, and stri... ...them, and picked up nearly a hundred too drunk or frightened to run away.” Grotesque gleam of a time no history will ever fully de- scribe! From that,... ...taking the northern side and he the southern, we played for parish points. Grotesque and foolish as this will seem to the sober reader, it is abso- lu... ... and Highgate. I remained a very long time upon the roof, wondering at the grotesque changes of the day. I recalled my mental states from the midnight... ...t the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time—a sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the red weed... ...t the solitary compositor who did the thing had amused himself by making a grotesque scheme of advertise- ment stereo on the back page. The matter he ...

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...nd so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and surrounded by an ed- dying ma... ...and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position. No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you— and wildly incredible!—and yet even now there are ... ...is vague. Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the ... ... of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times. He may...

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...uilt on wooden piers, decrepit and ready to fall, where on each floor some grotesque evidence is to be seen of the craft pursued by some lodger within... ...od man’s rather foolish appearance was so com- pletely in harmony with his grotesque figure and scared looks, that Rastignac, catching sight of Bianch... ...as. Her stupendous bust was a thing to laugh at, for it made one fear some grotesque explosion every time she coughed. Her enormous legs were of the s... ...are three large rooms which had been left in the state of dilapidation and grotesque bareness to which they had been reduced by the printing works. Th...

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...stress, they pointed out the men’s faces to each other, and laughed at the grotesque expressions on the faces of the crew who were straining every mus...

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...s that showed the relatively large size of his feet—they were, I remember, grotesquely exaggerated in size by adhesive clay—to the best possible advan... ...on the untrodden soil of the moon. As he stepped forward lie was refracted grotesquely by the edge of the glass. He stood for a moment looking this wa... ... a good twenty yards and more be- yond. I stood for a moment struck by the grotesque effect of his soaring figure—his dirty cricket cap, and spiky hai... ...f an opening door. Beyond was a sapphire vista, and in the doorway stood a grotesque outline silhouetted against the glare. We both made convulsive ef... ...nites were coming into the chamber. I became quite still, staring at their grotesque faces. Then suddenly my sense of disagreeable strangeness changed... ..., in utter perplexity of soul, surrounded, watched, touched by beings more grotesque and inhuman than the worst creations of a nightmare, it would be ... ...sponsible for him or them. For a time I struggled against this really very grotesque delusion. I tried to summon the memory of vivid moments, of tende... ...verhung, some ran about among the feet of their fellows. All of them had a grotesque and disquieting suggestion of an insect that has somehow contrive... ...nd strange features; here it was whis- kered and divided, and there with a grotesquely human pro- file. One distortion was particularly conspicuous. T...