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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: Moreover Wimblehurst had given me no outlet in any other
direction.
But I did not realise all this when I came to London, did not
perceive how the change of atmosphere began at once to warp and
distribute my energies. In the first place I became invisible.
If I idled for a day, no one except my fellow-students (who
evidently had no awe for me) remarked it. No one saw my midnight
taper; no one pointed me out as I crossed the street as an
astonishing intellectual phenomenon. In the next place I became
inconsiderable. In Wimblehurst I felt I stood for Science;
nobody there seemed to have so much as I and to have it so fully
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