{"id":15124,"date":"2010-08-13T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T04:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=15124"},"modified":"2010-08-13T00:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T04:04:27","slug":"h-g-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/08\/13\/h-g-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"H. G. Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nUdghSMTXsU<\/p>\n<p><em>Orson Welles in conversation with H. G. Wells<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1946 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._G._Wells\" target=\"_blank\">H. G. Wells<\/a> (born 1866) died.<\/p>\n<p>Frye in &#8220;Varieties of Literary Utopias&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The implication seems clear that the ideal state to More, as to Plato, is not a future\u00a0 ideal but a hypothetical one, an informing power and not a goal of action.\u00a0 For More, as for Plato, Utopia is the kind of model of justice and common sense, which, once established in the mind, clarifies its standards and values.\u00a0 It does not lead to a desire to abolish sixteenth-century Europe and replace it with Utopia, but it enables one to see Europe, and to work within it, more clearly.\u00a0 As H. G. Wells says of his Utopia, it is a good discipline to enter it occasionally.\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 27, 202)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nUdghSMTXsU Orson Welles in conversation with H. G. Wells On this day in 1946 H. G. Wells (born 1866) died. 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