"As Wells insists, many of Verne's inventions have materialized since his time. travel is a commonplace, and the circumnavigation of the moon is more than a possibility. Well's imaginings, however, remain as unattainable now as when he wrote: no one has yet contrived to travel through time, or ; we are still unable to , nor can we ."
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Bernard Bergonzi
(13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British poet, literary scholar, critic, and professor of English.
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