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Eloi, eloi—my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Later, suffering on the cross, Jesus spoke words from Psalm 22: “Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani…”
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Later, suffering on the cross, Jesus spoke words from Psalm 22: “Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani…”
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Eloi, eloi—my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Eloi, eloi—my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Later, suffering on the cross, Jesus spoke words from Psalm 22: “Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani…”
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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I clench when I read this, and I suffer visions of H.G. Wells, the eloi and the morlocks.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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There is very good evidence to suggest that humans are evolving into two species, the eloi and the morlocks.
Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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-------- When H.G. Wells wrote his novel "The Time Machine" in 1895, he predicted a future where the human race split into two descen - dent races: the simple and frail and handsome eloi race, who have no intellectual curiosity, and the morlock race, who are muscular and hairy and brutish and live in the dark and run the hidden machinery that provides for the easy life of the eloi.
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-------- And the morlocks are always hungry, so whenever they find an opportunity to capture and eat one of the eloi, they do so.
isnotnull commented on the word eloi
The Eloi are one of the two fictional post-human races, along with the Morlocks, in H.G. Wells' 1895 novel, The Time Machine. Eloi live a banal life of ease on the surface of the Earth while the Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing, and inventory for the Eloi. With all their needs and desires perfectly fulfilled, the Eloi have slowly become dissolute and naive: they are described as smaller than modern humans, with shoulder-length curly hair, pointed chins, large eyes, small ears, small mouths with bright red thin lips, and sub-human intelligence. They do not perform much work, except to feed, play, and mate, and are characterized by apathy.
Reference: Wikipedia's entry for Eloi
October 13, 2023