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Literature/Science Fiction THE LAST BOOkS of 
The HaPpy Turning: A DREAM OF LiFe H.G.WELLS MINd at the end of its tether RUCY RUCKER & COLIN WILSON NEW FOREWORDS BY This volume contains the last two works by HG WVells Near the end of his life increasingy distressed ciency. over the war, IVclls deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion and with human insufh- 
MIND NT THI: END OF ITS TI:THER ""One approaches it with awe. You come across references to it everywhere: Colin Wilson, Priestly, Kocstler. It seems to have been a wounding work; something no one could agree with, but something that couldn't be taken lightly." Art Beck "In the face of our universal inadequacy...man must go steeply up Or down and the odds seem to be all in favor of his going down and out. 

hc must ceasc to be a man. Ordinary man is at the end of his tether" If he goes up, then so great is the adaptation demanded of him that HG Wells THI: HAPPY TURNING: DRE:AM OF LiFI: Wells barbed fantasies about the afterlife take the form of "happy dream walks. In one he converses with Jesus: " But being cruci fied upon the irreparable things that one has done, realizing that one has failed, that you have let yourself down and your poor silly disciples down and mankind down, that the God in you has deserted you -that was the ultimate torment. Even on the cross I remember shouting something about it.' "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" I said. 
"Did someone get that down?" he replied. 'Don't you rcad the gospels?" "Good God, No!" he said. "How can I? I was crucified before all that," 

 

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