2012/42: The Invisible Man -- H G Wells
Sunday, September 16th, 2012 12:59 pmThe Invisible Man -- H G Wells
Read, like several other recent rereads, for the Coursera fantasy and SF course.( slightly spoilery review )
"...giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp! And the process failed [...] These were the claws and the pigment stuff, what is it? — at the back of the eye in a cat. You know?"
"Tapetum."
"Yes, the tapetum. It didn’t go. [...]gave the beast opium, and put her and the pillow she was sleeping on, on the apparatus. And after all the rest had faded and vanished, there remained two little ghosts of her eyes." [chapter 20]
Read, like several other recent rereads, for the Coursera fantasy and SF course.( slightly spoilery review )