I am very cross with all of you. Why did no one tell me that HG Wells is FUNNY?
From the very first page of “The War in the Air”, comes this gem.
He lived in a world of obstinate and incessant change, and in parts where its operations were unsparingly conspicuous.
From the third page, after a likely young lad has purchased his first motorbike:
The hire-purchase system bridged a financial gap, and one bright and memorable Sunday morning he wheeled his new possession through the shop and onto the road, got on to it with the advice and assistance of Grubb, and teuf-teuffed off into the haze of the traffic tortured high road, to add himself as one more voluntary public danger to the amenities of the South of England.
I can hear John reading that aloud and guffawing with laughter.
