Sunday's Poem: "The Hungry Gap-Time," by Thomas Lux from God Particles: Poems. Sunday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the science fiction writer H. G. Wells, born Herbert George Wells in 1866 in Bromley, England. He won a scholarship to a science school, and he learned about biology and Darwinism from Thomas Henry Huxley, grandfather of the writer Aldous Huxley. But he failed his geology exam and had to leave school. Wells had a series of medical problems — a shattered kidney, a burst blood vessel in his lung, a hemorrhage — and he often thought he was dying, but this only prompted him to write more and more, so he ended up writing more than 100 works, including The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898)...