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To my wife Sandra,
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Table of Contents
Chapter 6: My Encounter With the Morlocks
Chapter 9: Revelations and Remonstrances
Chapter 10: A Dialogue With a Morlock
Chapter 12: The Morlocks of the Sphere
Chapter 13: How the Morlocks Lived
Chapter 14: Constructions and Divergences
Chapter 15: Life and Death Among the Morlocks
Chapter 16: Decision and Departure