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| Wonderful
Mr Wells |
 Michael
Foot believes his friend, the writer HG Wells, is about to receive
a much-deserved revival, he tells Dan Carrier
“Flashes of flame, a bright glare leaping from one
to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. It was as if
some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame.
It was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned into
fire.”
HG Wells’s penned these lines in his seminal alien invasion
book The War of the Worlds in 1898. Using alien technology –
which would destroy anybody, and anything, standing in its way –
the invaders lay waste to the world before them.
And now Wells’s biographer and friend, the former Labour leader
and Hampstead resident Michael Foot, says with a technological war
being waged in Iraq, it is time for a revival of the man who is
credited with inventing Science Fiction.
“He was a prophet,” says Foot, from his home in Pilgrim’s
Lane. |
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| Why
Iris Murdoch got nil points as a mistress |
 Behind
Elias Canetti’s vicious attacks of his peers is an inner warmth
to his writing, says Gerald Isaaman
HE sat in a corner of the terrace outside the Coffee Cup
in Hampstead High Street, a grumpy-looking, dumpy man with moustache
and a shock of hair, not given to smiling.
He wore, almost always, a gaberdine mack over his suit and tie,
invariably a cardigan too, and carried a bulky briefcase that lay
at his side, as he talked to the young crowd, often bright girls
from St Godric’s down the road.
And he gave me an interview, once, at his flat in nearby Thurlow
Road, in the shabby big room at the back where he and the then unknown
Iris Murdoch had sexless sex together, according to his account
in this sensational memoir of his Hampstead days. |
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