The Time Machine
Glossary
Fourth dimension
Time, thought of as a direction like length or height.
Eloi
The gentle, childlike people of the future.
Morlocks
Pale creatures who live underground.
Sphinx
A statue with a lion's body and a human head.
Palace of Green Porcelain
A ruined museum in the future.
Camphor
A waxy substance that burns well.
Decadence
Growing weak through too much ease.
Entropy
The idea that everything slowly runs down.
Medical Man
One of the dinner guests, a doctor.
Psychologist
Another guest, who studies the mind.
Image credits
- Ruined Palace of Green Porcelain museum, Illustration by VoxRead, AI-generated for VoxRead