Chapter 3
Arrival in 802,701: the Time Traveller's first sight of the White Sphinx, 'a colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone.'
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The colossal weathered sphinx is the landscape's dominant symbol—an enigmatic monument that turns out to conceal the machine and embody the riddle of humanity's fate.
Chapter 5
Discovery that the Morlocks have hidden his machine within the sphinx's pedestal—the symbolic riddle made literal.
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