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Post by wireman on Mar 10, 2021 13:23:08 GMT
Today we will discuss Pollock and The Porroh Man by HG Wells
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Post by wireman on Mar 10, 2021 18:57:54 GMT
I got to what I thought was the end and it wasn't the end.  I'm looking for a link with the entire story.
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Post by wireman on Mar 10, 2021 19:09:20 GMT
I got to what I thought was the end and it wasn't the end. I'm looking for a link with the entire story.
On Guttenberg, there is a book with 30 stories in it that this one is in. I made a pdf of the book and took out just of this story. The story starts about halfway down the first page.
If that doesn't work for you, this is the link to the guttenberg page with the book. If you click the plain text link, you will get the entire book and you will have to scroll down to get to this story.
Sorry about that. I should have checked this earlier.
Here's a another link with the story
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Post by wireman on Mar 10, 2021 19:32:12 GMT
Ok, I read the last few pages.
That was a very entertaining story. It was a story of revenge that was a horror story but I found it quite funny too (I'm not sure if HG intended that but I couldn't help but laugh at the rolling head following Pollock everywhere). Also, it is about our lack of understanding of other cultures. I think that the Pollock character represents a country that was plundering the distant lands with no regard for the native populations and he got what was coming to him.
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Post by edwardjohn on Mar 10, 2021 19:35:58 GMT
I'll get to this story sometime next week after my essays are done.
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Post by wireman on Mar 10, 2021 19:42:31 GMT
I'll get to this story sometime next week after my essays are done. |
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Post by edwardjohn on Mar 10, 2021 19:43:41 GMT
I'll get to this story sometime next week after my essays are done. |
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Post by spideyman on Mar 10, 2021 20:53:14 GMT
I'll get to this story sometime next week after my essays are done. |
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Post by edwardjohn on Mar 10, 2021 21:02:12 GMT
I'll get to this story sometime next week after my essays are done. |
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Post by wolf on Mar 10, 2021 21:14:45 GMT
Good luck with the essays. WUITIIQGUyMrvFxIgkNw 🙂 |
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Post by edwardjohn on Mar 10, 2021 23:25:29 GMT
Thanks, I've already got one finished!  🙂 |
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Post by wolf on Mar 10, 2021 23:30:15 GMT
🙂 |
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Post by spideyman on Mar 10, 2021 23:57:00 GMT
Found the story haunting, and will agree with wireman, parts made my laugh/ smile. That was a very persistent head!! Whether buried, thrown away- it came back.
found this when doing a little research on the story:
This passage from Anglican vicar C. F. Schlenker's A Collection of Temne Traditions, Fables and Proverbs (London 1861), which perhaps Wells read, explains the significance of porroh:
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Post by spideyman on Mar 11, 2021 20:39:40 GMT
Reading group March 17th ( St. Patty's Day!)
back to Straub?? the next story: Bar Talk appears short.
A Story Guide to the City is a regular size short story.
Suggestions for the group read??
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Post by wireman on Mar 12, 2021 0:12:43 GMT
Reading group March 17th ( St. Patty's Day!)
back to Straub?? the next story: Bar Talk appears short.
A Story Guide to the City is a regular size short story.
Suggestions for the group read?? |
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Post by edwardjohn on Mar 12, 2021 23:19:53 GMT
Okay, finished this. Very good horror story, reminded me a lot of Blackwood, but more horror than supernatural. I'm not sure why, but I felt sorry for the foreigner, probably because of his ignorance, I didn't really have much sympathy for the native because of his murdering of the native girl at the start of the story, simply because she was with the foreigner. It reminded me a lot of a story called The Bottle Imp, search it up if you haven't heard of it, the similarities are pretty apparent, I wonder if Wells was inspired by it. I should check out his novels.
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Post by edwardjohn on Mar 12, 2021 23:21:04 GMT
Reading group March 17th ( St. Patty's Day!)
back to Straub?? the next story: Bar Talk appears short.
A Story Guide to the City is a regular size short story.
Suggestions for the group read?? |
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Post by cat on Mar 24, 2021 16:05:24 GMT
This story would make a nice little short TV show. Adventure and curses and revenge.
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I'm looking for a link with the entire story. 
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