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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

last week or two," he went on, "I've been cutting all

my committees and all my girls. You can't imagine

what a hullabaloo they've been making about it at

the College. Still, it's been worth it, I think. The

effects " He hesitated. "Well, they're odd, they're

very odd."

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind

of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was

reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own

purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of

deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of

asceticism.

The rest of the short flight was accomplished

in silence. When they had arrived and were

comfortably stretched out on the pneumatic sofas in

Bernard's room, Helmholtz began again.

Speaking very slowly, "Did you ever feel,"

he asked, "as though you had something inside you

that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to

come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't

using–you know, like all the water that goes down

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