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1
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A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear…bulged

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Narrator 1C5, F&F, Superiority of Martians

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a kind of fascination paralysed my actions…I was a battleground of fear and curiosity

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Narrator 1C5 F&F

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a man with a microscope might scrutinise and study the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water

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Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

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A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside…
a walking engine of glittering metal

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Narrator 1C10 F&F, O&C, Apocalypse

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a mounted policeman came galloping through the confusion with his hand clasped over his head, screaming

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Narrator 1C6 O&C

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a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel. …. the fear and empire of man had passed away.

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Narrator 2C7 Superiority of Martians, O&C, Empire

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a sort of metallic spider with five jointed, agile legs…its motion was so swift, complex, and perfect that at first I did not see it as a machine

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Narrator 2C2 F&F, Superiority, Technology

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legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current

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Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

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A sudden chill came over me…ungovernable terror gripped me

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Narrator 1C4 F&F, Apocalypse

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10
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an uncountable redness mingling with the black of the scorched meadows

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Narrator 2C1 Nature , Apocalypse

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11
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Are we such Apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martian’s warred in the same spirit?

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Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man, Empire

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12
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as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us

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Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

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blackened as far as one can see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke

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Narrator 1C2, Apocalypse, Superiority of Martians

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14
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blank incongruity of this serenity and the swift death flying yonder

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Narrator C2, Arrogance of Man, Apocalypse

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15
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brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers and hardened their hearts

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Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

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even the railway organisations, were …. guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.

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Narrator 1C16 O&C

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17
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extraordinary intensity of its immense eyes - were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous

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Narrator 1C5, F&F, Superiority of Martians

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18
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He was as lacking in restraint as a silly woman… this spoiled child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious

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Narrator 2C3 O&C, religion

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19
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how can God’s ministers be killed?

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Curate 1C13 Religion, Superiority of Martians

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20
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I believed that the destruction of Sennacherib had been repeated, that God had repented, that the Angel of Death had slain them in the night

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Narrator 2C8 religion

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21
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I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things

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Narrator 1C4 F&F

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22
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I was explainin’ these is vallyble.

vs “Death!” I shouted. “Death is coming! Death!

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Narrator 1C12 Money, O&C, F&F

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23
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infinite complacency, men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter

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Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man, Empire

24
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intelligences vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us

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Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

25
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Flourishing overhead before it descended and smote me out of life

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Narrator 1C7 religion

26
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It is still a matter of wonder how the Martians are able to slay men so swiftly and so silently

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Narrator 1C6 F&F, Superiority of Martians

27
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it was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind

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Narrator 1C3, Nature, Apocalypse

28
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it was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat

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Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, F&F, Religion

29
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a stampede - a stampede gigantic and terrible - without order and without a goal….the massacre of mankind

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Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

30
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Its bows and arrows against lightening

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Narrator 1C12 Superiority of Martians

31
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Just like parade it had been a minute before—then stumble, bang, swish!

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Artilleryman 1C12 Superiority of Martians, O&C, Empire

32
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Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. … It’s a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race

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Artilleryman 2C7 O&C, Science/Darwinism

33
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London about me gazed at me spectrally. The windows in the white houses were like the eye sockets of skulls…terror seized me

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Narrator 2C8 Apocalypse, F&F, nature

34
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Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal

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Narrator 1C11 Superiority of Martians, Technology
Apocalypse

35
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peculiar V-shaped mouth…gorgon group of tentacles

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Narrator 1C4, F&F

36
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scarlet and crimson trees towards Kew—it was like walking through an avenue of gigantic blood drops

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Narrator 2C6 Apocalypse, nature

37
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selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran - a grotesque mingling of profit and panic

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Narrator 1C16 O&C, arrogance of mankind

38
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slain…;slain as the red wed was being slain; slain….by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.

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Narrator 2C8 religion

39
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so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity

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Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man

40
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sticking into the skin of our old planet Earth like a poison dart, was this cylinder

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Narrator 1C8 Technology, Apocalypse

41
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such an extraordinary effect in unmanning me it had that I ran weeping silently as a child might do

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Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, Society, O&C

42
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The crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky

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Narrator 1C4, Nature, Apocalypse

43
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the first breath of the coming storm of Fear blew through the streets. It was the dawn of the great panic

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Narrator 1C14 O&C, Apocalypse

44
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The Martian’s took as much notice of such advances as we should of the lowing of a cow

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Narrator 1C9 Superiority of Martians

45
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the strangeness of its coiling flow… the houses of the village rising like ghosts out of its inky nothingness

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Narrator 1C15 O&C, apocalypse

46
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there might be other men on Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome missionaries

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Narrator 1C1 arrogance of man, Empire

47
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They must have bolted as blindly as a flock of sheep…two women and a little boy were crushed and trampled

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Narrator 1C6 O&C

48
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cut every telegraph, and wrecked the railways here and there. They were hamstringing mankind

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Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

49
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They were heads—merely heads…a mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the human being

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Narrator 2C2 Superiority of Martians

50
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this mysterious death - as swift as the passage of light - would leap…and strike me down

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Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, F&F

51
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three puffs of green smoke, the deep humming note, and the flashes of flame

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Narrator 1C6 F&F, Apocalypse, Superiority of Martians

52
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In one night the valley had become a valley of ashes…countless ruins of shattered and gutted houses and blasted and blackened trees

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Narrator 1C11 Nature, Apocalypse

53
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we’re down….We’re beat. We’re beat.
It never was a war, any more than there’s war between men and ants

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Narrator 2C7 Superiority of Martians, O&C

54
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we have sinned, we have fallen short

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Curate 2C4 religion

55
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with a sort of wonder that, in spite of the infinite danger … we could yet struggle bitterly for that horrible privilege of sight.

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Narrator 2C3 F&F

56
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woe unto this unfaithful city. Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe!

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Curate 2C4 religion

|biblical - unfaithful and used by Jesus to show separation from God. AO3

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