I recently re-read Wells’ The Time Machine, which made Justin Kahn’s How I got out of writing an essay on H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine that much more amusing:
January 17, 2005I received the syllabus for my Humanities course. A humanities course should not be required for my B.Sc. degree in Physics. To add insult to injury, we are supposed to do an analysis of Wells’ The Time Machine. We are to focus on the historical context when the topic is time travel?
Who reads a book on a time machine for social insights? I would do anything to get out of this essay.
At dinner, my friends complained about this assignment. I tell them a way out: I will build a time machine.
They mocked me, but they will see.