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Good evening.

Welcome to send me to sleep.

The world sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew.

I'm here to help calm your mind

and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight I'll be reading The Time Machine, Chapter 9, The Morlocks, and Chapter 10, When Night Came, by H.G. Wells.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 9 The Morlocks blocks. It may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow up the newfound clue in what was manifestly the proper way.

I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached

color of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum,

and they were filthfully cold to the touch.

Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of Eloy, whose disgust of the Morlocks I now began to appreciate.

The next night I did not sleep well.

Probably my health was a little disordered.

I was oppressed with perplexity and doubt.

Once or twice I had a feeling of intense fear for which I could perceive no definite reason.

I remember creeping noiselessly into the great hall where the little people were sleeping

in the moonlight.

That night, Wiener was among them and feeling reassured by their presence.

It occurred to me even then that in the course of a few days the moon must pass its last

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