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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

consciousness of being separate, it was only quite

recently that, grown aware of his mental excess,

Helmholtz Watson had also become aware of his

difference from the people who surrounded him.

This Escalator-Squash champion, this indefatigable

lover (it was said that he had had six hundred and

forty different girls in under four years), this

admirable committee man and best mixer had

realized quite suddenly that sport, women,

communal activities were only, so far as he was

concerned, second bests. Really, and at the bottom,

he was interested in something else. But in what?

In what? That was the problem which Bernard had

come to discuss with him–or rather, since it was

always Helmholtz who did all the talking, to listen to

his friend discussing, yet once more.

Three charming girls from the Bureau of

Propaganda by Synthetic Voice waylaid him as he

stepped out of the lift.

"Oh, Helmholtz, darling, do come and have a

picnic supper with us on Exmoor." They clung round

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