ENGL 1001H Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Woking Railway Station, Horsell
8 Mar 2016
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The apocalyptic narrative and the turn of the century. The undulating common seemed now dark almost to blackness, except where its roadways lay grey and pale under the deep blue sky of the early night. It was dark, and suddenly void of men. Overhead the stars were mustering, and in the west the sky was still a pale, bright, almost greenish blue. The tops of the pine trees and the roofs of horsell came out sharp and black against the western afterglow. The martians and their appliances were altogether invisible, save for that thin mast upon which their restless mirror wobbled. Patches of bush and isolated trees here and there smoked and glowed still, and the houses towards. Woking station were sending up spires of flame into the stillness of the evening air. Nothing was changed save for that and a terrible astonishment.
