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A critique is presented of the short stories "Aepyornis Island" and "Jimmy Goggles the God" y H. G. Wells, focusing on Wells' depiction of human behavior and emotions in terms of Menippean satire as defined by critic Mikhail Bakhtin. Carnivalized literary parodies, Wells' references to the book "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, and carnival traditions in the middle ages are discussed.