Post by: SomeKid on July 19, 2007, 07:21:03 PM
What is Eloi?
Post by: Ron on July 19, 2007, 07:39:48 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloi
Post by: charby on July 19, 2007, 07:58:03 PM
Sounds like Communist Manufesto in a different flavor
Post by: HankB on July 20, 2007, 03:51:46 AM
Statues of Moloch were supposedly hollow and made of brass - sacrifices (animals, produce, and people) were put into the stature, which was then heated by a fire underneath. The sacrifices were cooked/burned to death.
So Wells was inspired to coin the name Morlocks by ". . . those who worked in the fiery belly of Moloch . . ." which was how some people in Wells' time described steel mill workers, who, in Wells time, were seen as the fundamental base of a newly industrial society.
Wells had respect for the productive members of society, and none for the non-productive members of society (the Eloi) . . . so in Wells' mind, the Morlocks actually deserved to eat the Eloi . . . they'd earned that right.
Post by: Silver Bullet on July 20, 2007, 08:18:51 AM
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 20, 2007, 12:36:41 PM
Post by: AJ Dual on July 20, 2007, 05:16:00 PM
He's probably mowing the lawn, or dusting right now.
Or....
Working away in the subterranean mechanized underworld!
Post by: Bogie on July 21, 2007, 12:02:24 AM
Yawn.
PR, politics, and then, finally, powder.
So don't make my damn PR job any harder than it needs to be?
Post by: lee n. field on July 21, 2007, 04:26:45 AM
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What is Eloi?
H. G. Wells. The Time Machine. Don't watch the movies, either one. Read the book.
Post by: mountainclmbr on July 21, 2007, 04:49:03 AM
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El Tejon will be along shortly ...
He is probably expanding the search radious around his house......looking for NASCAR stickers on cars.
Post by: crt360 on July 21, 2007, 10:58:59 AM
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El Tejon will be along shortly ...
He is probably expanding the search radious around his house......looking for NASCAR stickers on cars.
Or, discretely sitting on his porch . . . and enjoying it!
