Literature, 1920

Nonfiction Outline of History by H. G. Wells who intends it to replace "narrow nationalist history by a general review of the human record." "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe," he says; The Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittem) by German author Ernst Jünger, 25.

H.G. Wells was the first to publish a set of rules (at the turn of the 20th century) for role-playing wargames - forerunner of the modern RPG.

• _War Of The Worlds (10/30/38)_(57:32) by Orson Welles & Mercury Theater
• authored: _The Time Machine_

"Could Wells have been personally familiar with the effects of Psilocybe, Clavicepts, or some other species of hallucinogenic mushroom?  Certain others of his stories seem to resonate with insights that may well have been derived from such experience.  In _The Platter Story_, for example, the title character finds himself transported to an eerie, hallucinatory 'Other-world' with a greensun, where the left and right side of his body are transposed.  The green illumination is consistent with the previously cited experience of Graves's Mr. W., whose 'surroundings seemed to take on bright colors, in which a vivid green predominated' when he ate what were reported to be Panaeolus papilionaceus mushrooms.  The transposition of Plattner's body reminds one of Alice's adventures _Through The Looking Glass_ (by Lewis Carroll), since mirrors cause a similar transposition; modern theories are that hallucinogens shift emphasis from left to right brain thinking.  Of equal interest, this 'Other-world' coexists with ours and is accessible to us when our perceptions are enhanced.  'It seems quite possible,' wrote Wells, 'that people with unusually keen eyesight may occasionally catch a glimpse of this strange Other-world about us'.  Another Wells story, _The New Accelerator_, tells of a man who takes a drug that speeds his metabolism to such a degree that the world around him appears to be standing still.  The impression of 'stopping the world' is another effect that occurs with hallucinogens... the possibility that Wells experienced psychoactive substances is compelling."
  -Terence McKenna - _Archaic Revival_

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

 – H. G. Wells

"Advertising is legalized lying." - H.G. Wells

The Beatles - _Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_ (1967) cover art depicts H.G. Wells, second row, third from right.
 
  

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