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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Writing) and the intervals of his educational

activities, a working Emotional Engineer. He wrote

regularly for The Hourly Radio, composed feely

scenarios, and had the happiest knack for slogans

and hypnopædic rhymes.

"Able," was the verdict of his superiors.

"Perhaps, (and they would shake their heads, would

significantly lower their voices) "a little too able."

Yes, a little too able; they were right. A

mental excess had produced in Helmholtz Watson

effects very similar to those which, in Bernard Marx,

were the result of a physical defect. Too little bone

and brawn had isolated Bernard from his fellow

men, and the sense of this apartness, being, by all

the current standards, a mental excess, became in

its turn a cause of wider separation. That which had

made Helmholtz so uncomfortably aware of being

himself and all alone was too much ability. What

the two men shared was the knowledge that they

were individuals. But whereas the physically

defective Bernard had suffered all his life from the

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