The Country of the Blind and Other Stories by H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, Classics, Short StoriesAnyone could say of any short story, "A mere anecdote," just as anyone can say "Incoherent " of any novel or of any sonata that isn't studiously monotonous. The recession of enthusiasm for this compact, amusing form is closely associated in my mind with that discouraging imputation. One felt hopelessly open to a paralyzing and unanswerable charge, and one's ease and happiness in the garden of one's fancies was more and more marred by the dread of it.