Read “Excerpt from The Time Machine” and answer the questions that follow.
Excerpt from The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
him. He starts out sitting in his machine in the laboratory in his home.
excessively unpleasant. There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switch
from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute,
and I had come into the open air. I had a dim impression of scaffolding, but I was
already going too fast to be conscious of any moving things. The slowest snail that
ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. The twinkling succession of darkness and
light was excessively painful to the eye.”
