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🗓️ 2 June 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | H.P. Parkcraft.com. |
0:02.0 | The time traveler, so it will be convenient to speak of him, was expanding a recondite matter to us. |
0:14.5 | His grey eyes shone and twinkled and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. |
0:20.8 | The fire burned brightly and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. |
0:29.0 | Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, |
0:35.8 | and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought runs gracefully free of the |
0:40.5 | trammals of precision. |
0:42.3 | And he put it to us in this way, marking the points with a lean forefinger, |
0:46.5 | as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox, as we thought it, |
0:52.0 | and his fecundity. |
0:54.6 | You must follow me carefully. |
0:56.4 | I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. |
1:01.6 | The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception. |
1:06.2 | Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon? |
1:10.6 | Said Philby, an argumentative person with red hair I do not mean to ask you to accept |
1:16.4 | anything without reasonable ground for it you will soon admit as much as I need |
1:21.6 | from you. as I need from you. |
1:23.0 | I need you to admit that this story kicks ass. |
1:27.0 | I will, I do admit it. |
1:28.0 | I admit it freely. |
1:30.0 | I am so excited to be reading this book. |
1:32.0 | Flipping these pages makes me feel like a kid again. |
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