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A quizzical rendering which impresses me with its curious reference to notorious spy Kim Philby("Filby"😉.

Intentional?

Edit: OK...I get the H.G. Wells reference now. I tend to over, or perhaps better, under-think... sometimes. 😀

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@wolfe63 said
A quizzical rendering which impresses me with its curious reference to notorious spy Kim Philby("Filby"😉.

Intentional?
David Filby old chap was a character in the Time Machine. (My second favorite book by H. G. Wells after 'The invisible man' ).

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
David Filby old chap was a character in the Time Machine. (My second favorite book by H. G. Wells after 'The invisible man' ).
Ahhhhhhh>>>thanks. I hadn't the slightest idea to what Wolfgang was referencing about Wells. To my discredit, I've never read an H.G. Wells novel, having optioned to laziness in watching solely the films based on his work.

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@wolfe63 said
Ahhhhhhh>>>thanks. I hadn't the slightest idea to what Wolfgang was referencing about Wells. To my discredit, I've never read an H.G. Wells novel, having optioned to laziness in watching solely the films based on his work.
The Invisible man is a book known to hook readers on the first page.

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
David Filby old chap was a character in the Time Machine. (My second favorite book by H. G. Wells after 'The invisible man' ).
Trivia
A descendant of Wells's worked on the film Back to the Future.

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@wolfgang59 said
Trivia
A descendant of Wells's worked on the film Back to the Future.
Reciprocated trivia:

In the 1979 film Time After Time, the time traveler in the story is imagined as being H.G. Wells himself. Having traveled to the present time, he meets Amy Robbins, who was played by Mary Steenburgen.


Mary Steenburgen played Clara Clayton in Back to the Future Part III.

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I know, it's true, a book is almost always better than a movie.

But that 1960 film really scared me as a little tyke. I couldn't have been much more than 3 when I saw it on television for the first time. In fact, I recall having a nightmare because of those creepy Morlocks.

These are two scenes that I recall as frightening at that time:

- The Siren's Call

- Morlocks