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Igenlode Wordsmith ([personal profile] igenlode) wrote in [personal profile] pedanther 2024-08-18 12:59 pm (UTC)

"Why did HG Wells take such pleasure in destroying Woking?": https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04w3fh6

"mushrooming towns popping out of the ground before the suburbs really became planned by the garden city movement" "the typical life of the lower middle class, of the clerks" "he could hide away and secretly, wilfully destroy the very places he was looking at" "His politics were a bit like the Incredible Hulk's: *Smash*" "if you wanted to destroy this in the name of modernity you would have to reckon with the fact that this kind of is modernity... this is not Old England"

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