Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. The book starts with the narrator mentioning that the people of Earth never expected Martians. Wells narrator jumps from talking about the whole world, to talking about himself, to talking about what his brothers been up to. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Fasten your seatbelt, folks, because the plot of War of the Worlds can be a little bumpy. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses-off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. ” -The New York Times Magazineīarbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read. Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Kendall’s grandmother wasn’t always in step with mainstream feminist thinking. The key message here is: Too often, feminism is for white women, and not for minorities. Her brand of feminism, which inspired Kendall herself, was centered around the issues that truly mattered to her. In fact, Kendall’s grandmother was not a fan of a lot of what feminists had to say. But domestic work, which was badly paid and sometimes unsafe, had never been in short supply. When it first emerged, the feminist movement was dependent on people like the author’s grandmother, who covered housekeeping tasks when white women decided to go outside the home to work. Was she a feminist? She wouldn’t have called herself one. Kendall’s grandmother worked hard throughout her life – at first to earn money, and later around the home as she raised her children. Dropping out of school was never an option, and college was encouraged, too. Author Mikki Kendall’s grandmother was born in 1924, and insisted that her four daughters get a decent education. 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