    <style type="text/css">         * {margin:0;padding:0;}      html {font-size:125%;}     body {         background-color: #cdcdcd;         font-size:50%;         font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;         color:#333;         }              #papper{         margin: 30px auto 0;         background-color:#FFF;         width:760px;         border: 2px solid #bdbdbd;         padding: 10px;     }     p {             font-size: 1.6em;         line-height: 140%;         margin: 0 60px 20px;         text-align:justify;     }      h1{         font-size:4.1em;         font-weight:bold;         color:#83201A;         letter-spacing:-0.1em;         word-spacing:0.3em;         text-align:center;         text-transform:uppercase;     }      h2{         font-size:2.5em;         color:#54110D;         text-align:center;         margin-bottom:10px;     }      img{         float:right;         border:solid 1px #83201a;         margin: 10px;     }      h3{         font-size:3.0em;         color: #999999;         float:left;         text-align:center;         width:60px;     }      p.ingress{         font-size:1.8em;         border-top:solid 1px #cdcdcd;         padding-top: 10px;     }      blockquote{         font-size:3.2em;         color:#83201a;         line-height:1.0em;         float:right;         border-left:solid 10px #b68e55;         padding-left: 10px;         margin-left: 10px;         margin-right:10px;         width: 193px;     }      p.ingress:first-letter {         font-size:6.5em;         color:#000;         float:left;         background-color:#b68e55;         border: solid 2px #83201a;         padding: 0.1em;         margin: 0 0.1em 0.1em 0;         line-height: 1.0em;     }      p.ingress:first-line {         font-variant:small-caps;     }      q{         color:#000;     }      #sidfot{         font-size:1.2em;         text-align:center;         border-top:solid 1px #cdcdcd;         padding-top:15px;     }      #avslut{         height:30px;     }     </style>     <div id="papper">          <h1>The Time Machine</h1>         <h2>by H. G. Wells [1898]</h2>         <h3>I</h3>         <img src="images/Timemachinebook.JPG" width="213" height="336" alt="The Time Machine by H. G. Wells" />                 <p class="ingress">The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him)                 was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and                 twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The                 fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent                 lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and                 passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and                 caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that                 luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully                 free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this                 way—marking the points with a lean forefinger—as we sat and lazily                 admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it)         and his fecundity.</p>                 <blockquote>His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.</blockquote>                                     <p><q>You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two                 ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for         instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.</q></p>             <p><q>Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?</q> said         Filby, an argumentative person with red hair.</p>         <p><q>I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable                 ground for it. You will soon admit as much as I need from you. You                 know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness <em>nil</em>,                 has no real existence. They taught you that? Neither has a         mathematical plane. These things are mere abstractions.</q></p>             <p><q>That is all right,</q> said the Psychologist.</p>             <p><q>Nor, having only length, breadth, and thickness, can a cube have a         real existence.</q></p>             <p><q>There I object,</q> said Filby. <q>Of course a solid body may exist. All         real things—</q></p>             <p><q>So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an <em>instantaneous</em>         cube exist?</q></p>             <p><q>Dont follow you,</q> said Filby.</p>             <p><q>Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real         existence?</q></p>             <p>Filby became pensive. <q>Clearly,</q> the Time Traveller proceeded, <q>any                 real body must have extension in <em>four</em> directions: it must have                 Length, Breadth, Thickness, and--Duration. But through a natural                 infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we                 incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions,                 three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.                 There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between                 the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that                 our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the         latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.</q></p>             <p><q>That,</q> said a very young man, making spasmodic efforts to relight         his cigar over the lamp; <q>that &#8230; very clear indeed.</q></p>     <p><q>Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,</q>                 continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of                 cheerfulness. <q>Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension,                 though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know                 they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. <em>There is                 no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space                 except that our consciousness moves along it</em>. But some foolish                 people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea. You have all         heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?</q></p>                 <div id="sidfot">Texten är hämtad från <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="Klicka här för att besöka Project Gutenberg" target="_blank">Project Gutenberg</a>. Bilden hämtad hos <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine" title="Klicka här för att besöka Wikipedia" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>         </div>         </div> <div id="avslut"></div>