Book 19: The First Men in the Moon/The Sleeper Awakes - H.G. Wells

[Wavid]

So, what are people doing for this one? Everybody reading both?

[John Self]

Haven't started yet but I did pull out First Men in the Moon the other night (it's the shorter of the two). I do intend to read both but it might be during November rather than before it - and NaNoWriMoSest might put paid even to that...

[Wavid]

I am looking into reading the Project Gutenberg versions for free. The problem with them is that they are provided in ASCII text format, with hard line breaks, so that when you paste it into a word processor to reduce the font size and make it more readable, the text is completely buggered up.

There must be a way of automatically removing these line breaks, but Google hasn't found me it yet...

[Stewart]

You could use MS Word and some VBA. Give me the link to the text and I'll write you a loop that should take out the breaks.

[ono no komachi]

Rick found a tool (http://www.ereader.com/products/ereader/pro) to do this, but it's not free.

[Wavid]

You could use MS Word and some VBA. Give me the link to the text and I'll write you a loop that should take out the breaks.

Blixa - how do you know this stuff?

The First Men on the Moon (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1013/1013.txt)

The Sleeper Awakes (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/wtslw11.txt)

Cheers!

[Colyngbourne]

I'm taking both books away on hols with me tomorrow.

[Wavid]

BTW, Blixa, if you manage to do this could you a) tell me how it is done and b) let me have the readable versions to make available on the Palimp?

[Stewart]

BTW, Blixa, if you manage to do this could you a) tell me how it is done and b) let me have the readable versions to make available on the Palimp?

That was what I was intending on doing; getting the code right then posting it for you with instructions on how to do it.

I know "all this stuff", as you put it, because my job primarily has me programming MS Office products; mostly Access and Excel, which is why Word may take me a bit longer to get into.

[Wavid]

You certainly are a useful chap to have around anyway! Thanks again.

[Stewart]

Okay, have managed to do it. The code below may look like gobbledegook to most but it works and that's the important thing. :razz:

It's not perfect, however, and some lines get merged but that's easily fixable manually.

Open up a blank Word Document;
Copy your chosen text into it.
In the menu select Tools -> Macro -> Visual Basic Editor
You should see the Project Explorer on the left of the screen. It's a tree-like hierarchy listing all the components of the session of Word. Documents, Projects, etc. If it's not there then press Crtl + R to bring it up;
Click once on This Document in the appropriate project i.e. the name of your Word document
In the menu select Insert -> Module
You will be presented with a new module with the words Option Explixit at the top. Copy the code below into the module after Option Explicit. If Option Explicit is not there then write that at the top of the module.
Close the Visual Basic editor window and return to your document
In the menu select Tools -> Macro -> Macros and select the new macro entitled FixMyDocument
Click the Run button and wait about ten seconds while it fixes your document.


Const cstrTitle1 As String = "Operation Failed"
Const cstrTitle2 As String = "Operation Successful"

Const cstrMessage1 As String = "Unable to populate search and replace terms."
Const cstrMessage2 As String = "Unable to perform search and replace operation."
Const cstrMessage3 As String = "Unable to correctly justify text."
Const cstrMessage4 As String = "The document has been successfully formatted."

Dim strSources(1 To 3) As String
Dim strReplaces(1 To 3) As String

Public Sub FixMyDocument()
Dim lngCounter As Long
' Populate arrays with values
If Not fGetValues Then
MsgBox cstrMessage1, vbExclamation, cstrTitle1
Exit Sub ' FixMyDocument
End If

' Perform search and replace three times
For lngCounter = 1 To 3
If Not fCorrectText(lngCounter) Then
MsgBox cstrMessage2, vbExclamation, cstrTitle1
Exit Sub ' FixMyDocument
End If
Next lngCounter

' Justify the text
If Not fJustifyText Then
MsgBox cstrMessage3, vbExclamation, cstrTitle1
Exit Sub ' FixMyDocument
End If

' Display success message
MsgBox cstrMessage4, vbExclamation, cstrTitle2
End Sub ' FixMyDocument

Private Function fGetValues() As Boolean
On Error GoTo Err_fGetValues

' Populate arrays for looping
strSources(1) = vbCr
strSources(2) = ".||"
strSources(3) = "||"
strReplaces(1) = "||"
strReplaces(2) = "." & vbCr & vbCr
strReplaces(3) = vbNullString

fGetValues = True ' Function was a success

Exit Function ' fGetValues

Err_fGetValues:
fGetValues = False ' Function failed

End Function ' fGetValues

Private Function fCorrectText(ByVal lngCounter As Long) As Boolean
On Error GoTo Err_fCorrectText
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting

With Selection.Find
.Text = strSources(lngCounter)
.Replacement.Text = strReplaces(lngCounter)
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With

Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
fCorrectText = True

Exit Function ' fCorrectText

Err_fCorrectText:
fCorrectText = False

End Function ' fCorrectText

Private Function fJustifyText()
On Error GoTo Err_fJustifyText

Selection.WholeStory
Selection.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphJustify

fJustifyText = True

Exit Function

Err_fJustifyText:
fJustifyText = False

End Function ' fJustifyText



I might look into developing this a little further as a Word add-in meaning that you can just "click" the code into place without knowing what you are doing and just select Fix Document, or whatever, from the Tools menu.

[Jerkass]

After that latest round of the Blixatech Expo '05, I'll answer Wavid's question: I'm reading The First Men in the Moon. I was told we could choose one or the other, so I did.

Still trying to get through Everything Is Illuminated at a pace of three pages per week, and with NoNoWriMoSest coming up, I'll hope to complete it in November at some point.

[pandop]

I want to read both, but I can't even think about it until I have my assignments in <sigh>
This module is not going well

Hazel

[carfilhiot]

I have put up on my website an HTML version of The First Men in the Moon at http://www.carfilhiot.co.uk/texts/1013.htm

The Sleeper Awakes is available at http://www.carfilhiot.co.uk/texts/12163-8.htm

Each is about 500Kb in length, so dial-up users may experience a delay.

You can save it locally by using File->Save As -> so you only have the download once.

[carfilhiot]

I have used GutenMark, a free utility that is rather hard to use if you are a Windows user (it's a command-line utility). I find it to be competent at rendering Gutenberg text into the more friendly HTML. Frankly, I feel I can afford to ignore the few blemishes because it's FREE!

[Jerkass]

I'm about sixty pages into The First Men in the Moon now...and, you know, you people might be on to something with this Wells character.

Yes, that's right--recall that I'm the person who finally was shocked into beginning to read again after a 15-year hiatus when I realized I always had considered myself a fan of Dickens, but HAD NEVER READ ANY OF HIS WORK--this is my first Wells.

I can't wait for him to turn out his next book. Er...what's that?

[John Self]

That's no shame, Jerkass - my first Wells was about six months ago. Ooer, though, it's getting close to November and it looks as though I'm going to be joining in the debate later than normal... Still, on the bright side, Wells wrote enough books that you could read nothing but his stuff from now till the day you die.

[JunkMonkey]

I am looking into reading the Project Gutenberg versions for free. The problem with them is that they are provided in ASCII text format, with hard line breaks, so that when you paste it into a word processor to reduce the font size and make it more readable, the text is completely buggered up.

Apart from the odd hiccup Project Gutenberg's stuff wraps nicely in my Palm Pilot. Not the best way to read a book I know but as my copy is "somewhere in depths of my attic" it will have to do.

It'll be good to read it again. I was about 11 when I last read it - 35 years ago.

[m.]

Sorry, I'll be late to this. I'm very slow with reading lately, and have three or four books already started so dont want to add another. But as soon as I finish Tess (I'm in the middle of it, precisely). I keep a copy near already, and The First Men it is.

[gil]

Yes, I'm going to be late, too.

[John Self]

Crikey, is it the first already? Well then some initial (hem hem, don't watch this space for updates) thoughts on The First Men in the Moon. As always with Wells's more adventuresome sci-fi (set against, that is, the likes of Tono-Bungay or A Modern Utopia, both of which I have at home and have picked up and looked at before turning pale and setting back down), it's an easy and digestible read, doubtless in the tradition of nineteenth (in this case just about, I think) century serialisations of novels in magazines.

Oddly, I thought it began somewhat uneasily, with the stuff about Mr Cavor and his irksome 'zuzzooing,' which seemed to me to indicate that as a humorist or whimsy-merchant, Wells makes a great sci-fi writer. (Indeed there's only one very good joke in The First Men in the Moon: when Bedford uses his gold from the moon to open a bank account in the name of Wells, which he thinks a respectable sort of name.) But fears were allayed by the second chapter, when Cavor described his idea of cavorite, and the brilliantly explained explosion which was caused when it was finally created. This brought back to mind The Invisible Man, where Wells took great pains to work out a plausible theory of how a man could become (practically) invisible, through albinoism of cells etc., and made me wonder which came first: the idea to write a story of men visiting the moon, and then trying to come up with a way to get them there; or (which I prefer) the real notion of an gravity-blocking substance and then the extrapolation of uses to which it could fictionally be put.

I was also delighted with the perfect logic of the Selenites' primary weakness (literally), that is, that the one-sixth gravity of the moon compared with the earth gave them much feebler muscles than humans, so Bedford was able to overpower them easily. This in turn brought to mind the logical weakness of the Martians in The War of the Worlds, and I did wonder if The First Men in the Moon at times was an offshoot of some ideas he had had for his earlier novels.

My edition has an introduction by China Miéville which (I skimmed it) suggests the book is a commentary on British imperialism. Well, maybe so, but of the food-for-thought stuff in the second half of the book, I was more interested in Bedford's notion that Cavor was unlike most men - or beings - in his desire for knowledge for its own sake, and of the idea of the Selenites being not a race of people but a whole variety of types, each adapted to suit its purpose, which seemed to me to be straining towards aspects of Darwinism.

The book had of course its cheesy moments too, with derring-do plot points (lost the sphere! clapped in irons! - or golds) and at time I could sense Wells the theorist and Wells the entertainer battling it out for control of the same pages. I think the entertainer won, and I don't rate The First Men in the Moon as highly as The Time Machine, but it's still a fascinating read, and well worthy of ****0. Next stop, The Sleeper Awakes...

[John Self]

So... is anyone else bothering this month? What about those who have already read either or both books? Ah well, I'm onto The Sleeper Awakes and will talk to myself if nobody else comes along.

[rick green]

Sorry. I'm working on First Men. I've had a kind of neurotic, catatonic, anxiety episode because of Nanowrimosest (pitiful, I know). That's sort of put the brake on my reading. I'll try & finish soon.

[rick green]

What about those who have already read either or both books?
Jerkass--that means you, pal!
[Edit--Damn! 900 posts and I'm still a Grand High Wizard.]

[Jerkass]

Hullo, hullo, I'm here.

Ok, see you all later.

[John Self]

I've had a kind of neurotic, catatonic, anxiety episode because of Nanowrimosest (pitiful, I know)

Not at all... I've lost some sleep over it myself! :oops:

[Colyngbourne]

I read The First Men in the Moona couple of weeks ago and have no deep thoughts about it. But I did enjoy it until the last section where we hear Cavor's transmissions from the Moon, and although they were pertinent, the section felt like an addendum.

I felt that Wells must have had a lot of fun writing it - maybe the zuzoo'ing of Cavor and the whole drawing-in of Bedford was 'whimsy' (as John felt) but it was a touch that established what I understood as the relation between the two characters - later on, there seemed only very guarded insight into Cavor's character and the sense of a story untold (but hinted at in his transmissions).

I was impressed with the whole thing - the construction of the anti-grav material, the flight, the arrival on the Moon and the discovery that the capsule was lost in the spongy flora. The scenes within the planet had less depth and kept us as well as C and B in the dark as to the complexities of the moon inhabitants' natures. In the one-handed narrative, this did necessitate the final chapter.

It was an amusing and fun read for me (and I was ...erm, "impressed" is not quite the word, but 'pleased' that something startling and horrific snuck its way in towards the end, with the notion of that young boy sealed inside the sphere and lost in space. Likewise for Bedford's remarkable lack of remorse at it happening.)


Now I'm stuck in The Sleeper Wakes, which started very similarly to The First Men but has lost a bit of its pull. I should finish it by tomorrow.

[John Self]

I'm just a quarter into The Sleeper Awakes, but already it's clearly a more seriously intended work than The First Men on the Moon. As Col says, there's less narrative pull, so I was surprised to see that it was written before First Men, as I had begun to associate it with Wells's more ponderous and less entertaining flights of fancy, like A Modern Utopia and Tono-Bungay (both of which I have merely skimmed and decided not to read).

[Digger]

Ok, so having just found my Sleeper Awakes which had been hiding in a completely illogical part of my bookshelves, I'll endevour to read it this week.

I'm not doing too well at this book group malarky really - read NOWttC but failed to comment, sigh. :oops: must do better.

[Wavid]

You can comment after the period for discussion ends, Digger. In fact, it's more the case that the next book starts, rather than the previous discussion is closed. Go for it!

[Digger]

I know Wav, just feel a bit sheepish, sneeking in after most people have moved on to bigger, brighter, newer things! Silly me, I will add my thoughts tonight - when I have the book back in front of me.

[John Self]

Is it just me, or is The Sleeper Awakes a bit of a drag? Super-duper ideas, ponderously executed. There's so much detailed description that my eye keeps slipping off the page. Although the set-up is extraordinary and very Philip K. Dick, the outcome could hardly be less so, unless things start happening very soon (I'm on page 180 of 230); I'm not saying it should be some sort of action thriller, but a bit of action and a few thrills wouldn't go amiss. I realise in saying that that in some quarters, the overthrow of the whole world order two hundred years in the future (or one hundred to us) might well constitute 'a bit of action,' but the way Wells tells it, all life is drained. I think I am seeing the transition I mentioned earlier which led to his later, less entertaining books. Similarly I am singularly failing to find my mind fired up with ideas of society and control and ruling power and the masses and all that stuff. The material is there but doesn't come alive.

Then again I seem to remember Mike praised it to the skies in his review on the Book Reviews forum, and others chimed in to agree. So maybe it is just me.

EDIT: I see on reviewing the other Wells thread, that Mike did like it but qualified his praise, and that it was chillicheese who felt it was "Wells's best." So explain yourself, sir!

[chillicheese]

Yes, I admit it, it was me. And you're right, much of the sleeper does feel like it's viewed through the dispersing gauze of an all-over body-bandage. I always thought that was the point. It's like a dream, but it's in the future. For me, this makes sleeper Well's best as it shows most his almost spooky accuracy as a journalist of times yet to come. The description of the flying machines alone always sends a shiver down me - how could he have known?

Like I always say :
H.G.Wells is/was a time traveller ; one hundred years later, we all still write his stories.

[rick green]

Just finished First Men. Good fun. Let me gather my thoughts for a minute.

[m.]

And I'm still in the middle of Tess...!

(not Hardy's fault, I feel obliged to say)

[Colyngbourne]

I'm just about to finish The Sleeper Wakes and am (at the 3/4 stage) engrossed by how Wells predicted so many things.

[John Self]

The prediction thing was one aspect I wasn't too sure about, because the one I'm reading is The Sleeper Awakes (the only one you can get now, so far as I can tell), which was a revised 1910 version of the 1899 original When the Sleeper Wakes. So it seems to me that Wells could have adapted some of the predictions, such as aeroplanes (particularly the naming of them as 'aeroplanes' rather than 'monoplanes' or 'biplanes') or ironclads (his name for armoured tanks) after they came into existence in the ten years between the two books. However I haven't read the notes on the text or introduction in detail to find out whether or not he did do this...

[Colyngbourne]

On such predictions as aeroplane and tanks, motorways, TV's and videos, videophones and education by long-distance computer learning, I already stand impressed.

But then there are other more pertinent predictions such as the gradual withering of the villages and countryside towns, with the attendant decline in provision of services - doctors, vicars, local shops, public transport - that we see now. Or here,

there is not an examination left in the world....."How do you get the work done?" "We make it attractive - as attractive as possible. And if it does not attract then - we let it go."
Cue what we know about the watering-down of the curriculum from primary through to tertiary stages.

Or this, which is The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:
Conversely memories could be effaced, habits removed, and desires eradicated...indignities, humbling experiences, were thus forgotten, widows could obliterate their previous husbands, angry lovers release themselves from their slavery


The other thread that I need to think more about is the metaphor of the resurrection that surfaces later on, in relation to Graham's death-of-sleep and reawakening, and thence his (theoretical) mastery of the world and his position to help the suffering/oppressed masses who have been waiting for a saviour.

[ono no komachi]

I did read the introduction and had a vague memory that the main changes Wells made were to make the relationship between Graham and Helen less suggestive of any romantic element.

I have dug around a bit, and found Wells' preface to the later version, which is not too long, so I will post it here, not quite in its entirety, as it contained spoilers.


When the Sleeper Wakes, whose title I have now altered to The Sleeper Awakes, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in the Graphic and one or two American and colonial periodicals. It is one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my books, and I have taken the opportunity afforded by this reprinting to make a number of excisions and alterations. Like most of my earlier work, it was written under considerable pressure; there are marks of haste not only in the writing of the latter part, but in the very construction of the story. Except for certain streaks of a slovenliness which seems to be an almost unavoidable defect in me, there is little to be ashamed of in the writing of the opening portion; but it will be fairly manifest to the critic that instead of being put aside and thought over through a leisurely interlude, the ill-conceived latter part was pushed to its end. I was at that time overworked, and badly in need of a holiday. In addition to various necessary journalistic tasks, I had in hand another book, Love and Mr. Lewisham, which had taken a very much stronger hold upon my affections than this present story. My circumstances demanded that one or other should be finished before I took any rest, and so I wound up the Sleeper sufficiently to make it a marketable work, hoping to be able to revise it before the book printers at any rate got hold of it. But fortune was against me. I came back to England from Italy only to fall dangerously ill, and I still remember the impotent rage and strain of my attempt to put some sort of finish to my story of Mr. Lewisham, with my temperature at a hundred and two. I couldn't endure the thought of leaving that book a fragment. I did afterwards contrive to save it from the consequences of that febrile spurt - Love and Mr. Lewisham is indeed one of my most carefully balanced books - but the Sleeper escaped me.


It is twelve years now since the Sleeper was written, and that young man of thirty-one is already too remote for me to attempt any very drastic reconstruction of his work. I have played now merely the part of an editorial elder brother: cut out relentlessly a number of long tiresome passages that showed all too plainly the fagged, toiling brain, the heavy sluggish driven pen, and straightened out certain indecisions at the end. Except for that, I have done no more than hack here and there at clumsy phrases and repetitions. The worst thing in the earlier version, and the thing that rankled most in my mind, was the treatment of the relations of Helen Wotton and Graham. Haste in art is almost always vulgarisation, and I slipped into the obvious vulgarity of making what the newspaper syndicates call a "love interest" out of Helen. There was even a clumsy intimation that … Graham might have … married Helen. I have now removed the suggestion of these uncanny connubialities. Not the slightest intimation of any sexual interest could in truth have arisen between these two. They loved and kissed one another, but as a girl and her heroic grandfather might love, and in a crisis kiss. I have found it possible, without any very serious disarrangement, to clear all that objectionable stuff out of the story, and so a little ease my conscience on the score of this ungainly lapse.

[Colyngbourne]

Well, I've finished it now, and I'm glad Wells cut out all the romance stuff - what remained was bare-bones but worked in context. There just wasn't time amongst all the tours of factories, running down walkways and negotiating struts and galleries, to engage in such frivolities!

It was all that kind of description that weighed this book down and made my eye run even quicker over the page. I could get the broad gist of the complicated terrain and who was moving where, and in what kind of uniform but as Graham himself described the spectacle, it was like so many different kinds of ants scurrying about and setting against each other.

What really struck me was the inventive aspect of the book - the mechanical/engineering things of course but also the social engineering too - the babes in creches untended by human hand (shades of Brave New World there but also of the whole return-to-work ethic espoused in the last couple of decades).

The ending was great - Graham in the first dog-fight ever written, and a juddering stop, all noise and sensation, like the first moments of waking up.

[gil]

As it turned out, I only read The First Men in the Moon. I had read both before, but I only remember disliking The Sleeper Awakes.

This is sf as sf traditionally was before 1950. Told à la Sherlock Holmes' Dr Watson by a person without the specialist knowledge of the expert. Examples abound in Jules Verne, etc.

This pattern of narration was broken in the 1950s, when authors like Bester, Blish, Vonnegut, Dick, Pohl and Kornbluth wrote sf in which the reader was immersed in the story's world from the start, without explanation, and had to scramble for comprehension. Asimov went half way. He used the immersion, but tended to make his heroes non-experts, so that they could have the science explained to them for the reader's benefit.

So here we have the classic 19th and first half of 20th century model for an sf novel. The protagonist has no idea how to reproduce the miracle of science - he can only describe it.

As a physicist, I have some dispute with the science of Cavorite. An asymmetrical situation like that amounts to a perpetual motion machine - it's a sort of black hole in reverse. And the energy required to pull the Cavorite blinds should in principle be more than the energy delivered by pulling them. Even as a 10 year old, Cavorite irritated me as a concept. In addition, navigation of the machine would have been a nightmare, because once the sphere started to rotate, as it certainly would, it would have been impossible to maintain a constant heading.

I was impressed, on this reading, by his description of the appearance of space - so many years before moon missions and 2001 A Space Odyssey made the crystal clarity of space a well-known image. He describes how, for example, the dust of stars were cut off, delineating the dark portion of the moon.

So, up to a point, Wells starts writing something which, if a little dubious scientifically, did not actually contradict known facts. It is clear that he knew exactly the distance from Earth to Moon, the Moon's periodicity and behaviour, its gravitational pull compared to Earth, its dimensions, yet when the travelling sphere reaches the Moon, various things happen which he must have known were not the case, viz. the drifts of frozen air, the vegetation, the inhabitants. Even by 1901, astronomical observations would have detected any lunar atmosphere and its composition.

To me, it gives the impression that, the Moon being totally barren in reality, there was no grist for the tale so he was forced to "sex it up" a little. And he had to make it possible for the story to be told without the need to explain why Cavorite was not yet in common use.

The book then trails off with a wishy-washy Utopian view of the Selenites.

One thing I noticed that Wells did rather cleverly was to make it clear that his protagonist, Mr Bedford, was a proper pain in the butt.

Having thus dismissed TFMITM as second-rate sf and bad science, it only remains for me to report that, having first read it in about 1951, I long remembered many of the incidents and descriptions in the book and could have, to this day, named Cavorite as the gravity-shielding material.

[m.]

The First Men in the Moon

I appreciate the book's place in the history of s-f literature and I can see how it could be the source of inspiration for many future writers. Indeed, I was amazed how much C. S. Lewis lifted from it in his Out of the Silent Planet (still, he acknowledged this - I ran to check). But in its own right, the book didn't satisfy me. It never lives up to its promise. The characters aren't very complex, the writing is rather uninspired (that's how it felt to me), the ideas could use some further exploration. The novel seems to lack focus - ok, maybe the intended leitmotiv is the flawed nature of the Earthlings, their eternal greed and mindless aggression. But - it is present there, but not really moving. The whole thing is told from the point of view of the always less informed party - Bedford - which made it easier for the author to conceal any gaps - be it in the science behind the functioning of cavorite, or in the description of the Selenite society - but distances the reader too much from the story, I think. That said I liked quite a few things (some already mentioned in this thread): the dialogue in which Bedford breaks it to Cavor that scientific curiousity isn't for most people what it is for him; the idea of the underground moon; the horror of the boy's disappearance into space; the Grand Lunar.

**0001/2

[JunkMonkey]

Okay, have managed to do it. The code below may look like gobbledegook to most but it works and that's the important thing. :razz:

It's not perfect, however, and some lines get merged but that's easily fixable manually.

Or here is a quick way of doing the whole thing with the usual Find and Replace functions of Word.

Download from Gutenberg.org then open whatever.txt file in Word.


Ctrl H

(This will open Word’s Replace Tab)

1.

In ‘Find What’ box enter ^p^p (i.e. Shift 6 then a lower case letter p - upper case will not work.)

In the ‘Replace With’ box enter @@ (or some other unique combination not likely to be in the text)

Click Replace All

2.

In the ‘Find What’ box enter ^p

In the ‘Replace With’ enter ^w (again lower case only - or just click the space bar)

Click the ‘Replace All’ button

3.

In the ‘Find What’ box enter @@

In the ‘Replace With’ box enter ^p^p

(i.e. reverse stage 1)

Close the Replace Dialogue box and Save