At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about… — H.G. Wells

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

The War of the Worlds · 1897
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Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Signet, 2007, ch. 7.
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Wells, H. G. "The War of the Worlds." Pearson's Magazine/Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1897.

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