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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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...ty.” The girl’s tired smile watched the word as if it had taken on a small grotesque visibility. “You’re wonderful on such subjects! I think I should ... ... 308 The Wings of the Dove happy relation; being by this time, strangely, grotesquely, delightfully, what most kept up confidence between them and wh... ...ew of it and though not flagrantly mean, showed itself as a setting almost grotesquely inapt. Pale, grave and charming, she affected him at once as a ...

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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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... 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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...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...

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...solemn twaddle—which can’t fail to be attended with consequences certainly grotesque and possibly immoral. To begin with, fancy constituting an endowm... ...ld that prevent?” Again my visitor faltered, and I began to reflect on the grotesque, the unconscious perversity of her action. I was the only person ...

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...at that time. He had not the strength of mind to shake himself free… . The grotesque image of a fat, pushing ship-chandler, en- slaved by an unholy lo... ...reception had scared me away. First of all I was not going to run before a grotesque and ruffianly old woman. And then you mustn’t forget these necess...

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...rthy of respect. Whatever my talents may be, I am honest. There is nothing grotesque in a pure ambition, or in a life devoted to it.” There was someth...

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...any of them that he seemed to be a creature capable of inflating itself, a grotesque specimen of mankind from some other planet. The contrast struck m... ... it heartily, but not with the game charming tone: “Ha, ha, ha! … Isn’t he grotesque? Ha, ha, ha!” And the ludi- crousness of old Nelson’s inanely fie... ...ys; lovably like Jasper, impracticably like her father, odiously like that grotesquely supine creature in the chair. Was it possible to talk him over?...

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...like of it, won him. He began to feel a sort of nibbling plea- sure in her grotesque sketches of his person; a tendency to recur to the old ones while... ...oman of seventy. Most preposterous! Could any caricature of mine exceed in grotesqueness your sketch of yourself? You are a brave and a generous man a...

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...vidently not a few types for which he had little love. London in short was grotesque to him, and he made capital sport of it; his only allusion that I...

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...acrificial kings butch- ered picturesquely and terribly amidst strange and grotesque rituals; he would survey long and elaborate processions and cerem... ... from him. He fell swiftly down from the heaven of self-forgetfulness to a grotesque, pathetic and earthly self- consciousness. He became acutely awar... ...ritual belief that you and I share, which is absolutely intolerant of such grotesque ideas. My argument to you is that the new faith, the clearer visi... ...o his hypersensitive mind. It impressed him in its Englished travesty as a grotesque, as a veritable Charlie Chaplin among hymns, and in truth it does...

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...have all heard of simple men selling their souls for love or power to some grotesque devil. The most ordinary intelligence can per- ceive without much... ...d of him, he provokes, when he walks abroad, smiles not altogether unkind. Grotesque and engaging in the whole of his appearance, his usual attitudes ... ...soft black hat, which sat like an absurd flanged cone on his big head. The grotesque and massive aspect of that deck hand (I suppose he was that— very...

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... that I should succeed in looking en- tirely unastonished. All I at first saw was the big gold bar crossing each of her lenses, over which something c...

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...have all heard of simple men selling their souls for love or power to some grotesque devil. The most ordinary intelligence can perceive without much r... ...d of him, he provokes, when he walks abroad, smiles not altogether unkind. Grotesque and engaging in the whole of his appearance, his usual attitudes ... ...soft black hat, which sat like an absurd flanged cone on his big head. The grotesque and massive space of that deck hand (I suppose he was that—very l...

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...atal white lines along the seams. Then his waistcoat was too short, and so grotesquely provincial, that he hastily buttoned his coat over it; and, fin... ...the Mar- quise d’Espard proof of his wit, and redeem the shabbiness of his grotesque accoutrements by the display of intellectual riches. The total of... ...The Palais seen from the court or from the garden was a fantastic sight, a grotesque combination of walls of plaster patchwork which had once been whi... ...at we in Paris build round about public monuments that remain unbuilt; the grotesque aspect of the mart as a whole was in keeping with the seething tr... ...sappeared with the first symptoms of vociferous nonsense which precede the grotesque scenes of an orgy in its final stage. Coralie and Lucien had been... ...c tumbled artificial flowers. The more incapable members of the party were grotesquely tricked out in these blossoms, and a crown of roses was soon wo... ... and somewhat arid grace. The man himself, like his manner of life, was in grotesque contrast with the airy mythological look of his rooms; and it may... ...apers, a placard caught his eyes. It was an advertisement of a book with a grotesque title, but beneath the announcement he saw his name in brilliant ...

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...er heart. This typical figure of the genus Old Maid was well framed by the grotesque designs, representing Turkish landscapes, on a varnished paper wh...

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...tered a little shriek. On the way back to town the situation struck him as grotesque. CHAPTER V. It tormented him so the next morning that after thres... ...but he let it pass. The subject was a profitless riddle—a puzzle that grew grotesquely bigger, like some monstrosity seen in the darkness, as one open...

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...face framed in a species of loophole. At first he took these two faces for grotesque masks carved in stone, so angu- lar, distorted, projecting, motio...