Voyages to Other Worlds — Part 4: The Time Machine — Part Three

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Voyages to Other Worlds — Part 4: The Time Machine — Part Three | KacheliTV World Classics The Time Machine continues. The Traveller has reasoned out the secret of the year 802,701: the Eloi above, the Morlocks below, and his machine locked in the bronze pedestal of the White Sphinx. Now reasoning gives way to action. In this third part of the telling he climbs down one of the great wells into the Morlocks' own cavern, with nothing but a box of matches between himself and the dark; night falls on the world above, and Weena is in danger of it; and beyond the hill he explores the Palace of Green Porcelain, a museum of a vanished age, where things he badly needs — matches, camphor, and a lever of metal — may still be found. Here are chapters nine, ten and eleven of the novel: the Morlocks, when night came, and the palace of green porcelain. The telling is completed in Part Five of Voyages to Other Worlds. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:35 Voyages to Other Worlds — Part Four 2:24 Chapter Nine — The Morlocks 17:01 Chapter Ten — When Night Came 33:58 Chapter Eleven — The Palace of Green Porcelain 51:06 Closing Theme Narrated by Silas. The text is told from the Project Gutenberg text of Wells's 1895 novel. Two brief clauses in Chapter Nine, at the moment of the Traveller's escape up the shaft, are not read; and the editor's footnote the Gutenberg text carries in Chapter Eleven is not read, as editorial apparatus never is. Nothing else is altered, and the period descriptive terms of 1895 stand as printed. Music: 'Jardin au Clair de Lune' (instrumental) opens and closes the programme and sounds between the chapters; 'Sweeping Triumph' plays as the quiet background bed under the reading. Source text: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895), text from Project Gutenberg eBook #35, public domain. Part Three of the telling (chapters IX–XI); the telling runs to four parts in all. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.