Listen "The Time Machine, Part 4"
Episode Synopsis
Book Summary; A scientist who builds a time machine, travels to the year
802,701 AD and there encounters humanity's descendants – the childlike
Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Interminable; endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically).
- Malign; evil in nature or effect.
- Carloviginan; The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family.
- Estuary; the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
- Diminution; a reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something.
- Immemorial; originating in the distant past; very old.
- Steatite; a massive talc having a grayish-green or brown color; soapstone.
- Exultation; a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.
- Contrivance; the use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality.
- Rarefied; (of air, especially that at high altitudes) of lower pressure than usual; thin.
- Gynæceum; most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.
Attributes;
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash
- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure is Calling by Vens Adams License code: OEE9X8ICZQGGPWNX
802,701 AD and there encounters humanity's descendants – the childlike
Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks.
Words I had to look up in order to read this book;
- Interminable; endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically).
- Malign; evil in nature or effect.
- Carloviginan; The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family.
- Estuary; the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
- Diminution; a reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something.
- Immemorial; originating in the distant past; very old.
- Steatite; a massive talc having a grayish-green or brown color; soapstone.
- Exultation; a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.
- Contrivance; the use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality.
- Rarefied; (of air, especially that at high altitudes) of lower pressure than usual; thin.
- Gynæceum; most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.
Attributes;
- Podcast Cover Photo by Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash
- Profile Photo by Taton Moïse on Unsplash
- Intro/Outro Music; #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): Adventure is Calling by Vens Adams License code: OEE9X8ICZQGGPWNX
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