Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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Context: The narrator on how a village carries on with its holiday just after seeing something impossible.
Source: Chapter X, “Mr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping”
The more I thought it over, Kemp, the more I realised what a helpless absurdity an Invisible Man was—in a cold and dirty climate and a crowded civilised city. Before I made this mad experiment I had…
An invisible man is a man of power.
The fact is, I’m all here—head, hands, legs, and all the rest of it, but it happens I’m invisible. It’s a confounded nuisance, but I am. That’s no reason why I should be poked to pieces by every…
Alone—it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror. This announces the first day of the Terror. Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them; it is under…
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I…