H. G. Wells
“We were making the future, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making.”
When the Sleeper Wakes, 1899
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Source
H. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
Date
1899
Wording
Exact
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About this line
A man falls asleep in 1897 and wakes two centuries later inside the world his own era built without thinking. This is the moment the Sleeper realizes he never once stopped to picture the future he was helping make.
Why we carry this line
Was Wells clairvoyant? Another sentence that could have been written yesterday. Thinking for yourself is somewhat of a lost art. Makes me think.
