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To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless . That way lies monomania . Face this world . Learn its ways , watch it , be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning . In the end you will find clues to it all . ’ Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind : the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age , and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it . I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised . Although it was at my own expense , I could not help myself . I laughed aloud . “ Going through the big palace , it seemed to me that the little people avoided me . It may have been my fancy , or it may have had something to do with my hammering at the gates of bronze . Yet I felt tolerably sure of the avoidance . I was careful , however , to show no concern and to abstain from any pursuit of them , and in the course of a day or two things got back to the old footing . I made what progress I could in the language , and in addition I pushed my explorations here and there . Either I missed some subtle point or their language was excessively simple — almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs . There seemed to be few , if any , abstract terms , or little use of figurative language . Their sentences were usually simple and of two words , and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest propositions . I determined to put the thought of my Time Machine and the mystery of the bronze doors under the sphinx , as much as possible in a corner of memory , until my growing knowledge would lead me back to them in a natural way . Yet a certain feeling , you may understand , tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival . VIII . Explanation “ So far as I could see , all the world displayed the same exuberant richness as the Thames valley . From every hill I climbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings , endlessly varied in material and style , the same clustering thickets of evergreens , the same blossom - laden trees and tree ferns . Here and there water shone like silver , and beyond , the land rose into blue undulating hills , and so faded into the serenity of the sky . A peculiar feature , which presently attracted my attention , was the presence of certain circular wells , several , as it seemed to me , of a very great depth . One lay by the path up the hill which I had followed during my first walk . Like the others , it was rimmed with bronze , curiously wrought , and protected by a little cupola from the rain . Sitting by the side of these wells , and peering down into the shafted darkness , I could see no gleam of water , nor could I start any reflection with a lighted match .
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