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December 17, 2004

War of the Worlds

A War of the Worlds teaser trailer is now on-line. Despite my earlier scepticism I think this could be cool. It is odd to hear H.G. Wells' introductory words transposed to the twenty-first century. For one thing, probably half the people I know believe this world is being watched by alien intelligences. It is convincing them of the danger of all too human hostile intelligences that is difficult.

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. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 17, 2004 09:41 AM

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