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John Uri Lloyd’s “Etidorhpa” (1895)

• wcerfgba 5y ago
  For a second I thought that this person's middle name was "URI", as in Uniform Resource Identifier
  • tantalor 5y ago
    URI -> Uri
  • dang 5y ago
    HN's software autocases certain things and "uri" is much more often "URI" than "Uri", so we manually correct the latter. Sorry, Uris of the world!
• devindotcom 5y ago
  I saw this article when it was published and downloaded a copy from Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37775 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37775 It's really interesting how once you sort of clear out the works we are now familiar with from an era, you find stuff that's also highly interesting but often too weird to survive. I recently read "The Purple Cloud," one of the early apocalyptic novels, and while it was interesting I certainly see why it isn't widely read. Similarly "The Night Land," earthshaking in its originality but practically unreadable. The best among them is probably "The Machine Stops," which is well written, succinct, highly prescient, and seems to only recently have re-entered the zeitgeist somewhat.