"No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."

(H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898)

Erste Sätze

Anmerkung: Spielbergs Filmfassung hin oder her - wenn ich diese Worte lese, höre ich sie immer noch mit Richard Burtons Stimme in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Manches ist eben einfach unersetzlich.