the random excerpts from h.g. wells' war of the worlds thread.

[killallhippies]

I felt foolish and angry. I tried and found I could not tell them what I had seen. They laughed again at my broken sentences.

 

[killallhippies]

A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey road, Woking, saw a star fall from heaven into the pine woods to the northwest. It had a greenish colour, and caused a silent brightness like summer lightning. This was the second cylinder.

 

[breakwall]

can you do them in order? That way it will read like a Reader's Digest condensed version.

 

[killallhippies]

nuh uh.



The news of the massacre probably reached Chobham, Woking, and Ottershaw about the same time

 

[killallhippies]

you guys suck!

 

[breakwall]

you guys suck!

I don't recall that one.
What was the context?

 

[killallhippies]

i don't know. it's, like, random and stuff.

 

[Xelebes]

Random is good.

 

[killallhippies]

pap smurf was a pedophile. hey, you're right.

 

[Byron In Exile]

After getting this sudden lesson in the power of terrestrial weapons, the Martians retreated to their original position upon Horsell Common; and in their haste, and encumbered with the débris of their smashed companion, they no doubt overlooked many such a stray and negligible victim as myself. Had they left their comrade and pushed on forthwith, there was nothing at that time between them and London but batteries of twelve-pounder guns, and they would certainly have reached the capital in advance of the tidings of their approach; as sudden, dreadful, and destructive their advent would have been as the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon a century ago.

 

[killallhippies]

In the sudden thud, hiss, and glare of the igniting trees, the panic-stricken crowd seems to have swayed hesitatingly for some moments. Sparks and burning twigs began to fall into the road, and single leaves like puffs of flame. Hats and dresses caught fire. Then came a crying from the common. There were shrieks and shouts, and suddenly a mounted policeman came galloping through the confusion with his hands clasped over his head, screaming.

 

[bg23]

but soft!

...

ok. no shakespeare.

 

[killallhippies]

fool! you ruined it!

 

[bg23]

i'm sorry!!!!!!11111



i'm really really sorry!!!

(the sadface emotes seemed to work on equinoxe. maybe theyll work on you too.)

 

[Byron In Exile]

"It's a pity they make themselves so unapproachable," he said. "It would be curious to know how they live on another planet; we might learn a thing or two."

 

[killallhippies]

fool! emoticons are useless against my wrath!

 

[killallhippies]

Beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. As the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. Then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. Slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.

 

[Byron In Exile]

fool! you ruined it!

Nonsense!

H.G. Wells and Shakespeare are an excellent combination.

Watch...

Forthwith flashes of actual 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 to fire.

I am ashamed that women are so simple
To offer war, where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.

See?

It totally works.

 

[bg23]

fool! emoticons are useless against my wrath!

how about these ones?

 

[killallhippies]

you guys are just trying to piss me off.

 

[Byron In Exile]

you guys are just trying to piss me off.

{{{{{killallhippies}}}}}

An enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away. The heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

 

[killallhippies]

"It's a-movin'," he said to me as he passed; "a-screwin' and a-screwin' out. I don't like it. I'm a-goin' 'ome, I am."

 

[bg23]

kippies i love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Byron In Exile]

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

Take pity of your town and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command,
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of heady murder, spoil, and villainy.
If not, why, in a moment look to see
The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls;
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confus'd
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid,
Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?

 

[bg23]

With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,
not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood
with love than I will get again with drinking, pick
out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me
up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of
blind Cupid.