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However, their partnership wasn’t without
its problems; it’s well known that in 1885
Gilbert had trouble hitting upon a plot to
satisfy Sullivan. I wonder what he might
have written if, instead of a Samurai sword
falling off his wall and inspiring “The Mikado”
he’d read H G Wells’ “The Time Machine”
published that very same year. Surely the
paradoxical possibilities of time travel would
have appealed to his fascination with all
things topsy-turvy!
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