'I slept.' These one-sentence paragraphs are good, as they slow down the pace of reading, and make the reader stop and perhaps think about what is written just before. It also cuts off the atmosphere and feelings of the reader from the paragraph before, especially with 'There is just one other thing,' meaning that the reader is clear to read on and fully take on and experience the next paragraph.
             'Red Room' is written with quite old-style language, and several anachronisms are used: 'atavistic' and 'penumbra' and 'facetiousness'. These are quite typical of Victorian language. The speech is fairly long and drawn out, different from today when we use lots of abbreviations, slang words, and short sharp sentences. We also tend not to use a long word where a short one will do, which suggests that modern language has become quite lazy: 'did I do that myself in a flash of absent-mindedness?' The words used by Wells create quite an eerie atmosp
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