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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
his shoulders. "But they go such a little way. They
aren't important enough, somehow. I feel I could do
something much more important. Yes, and more
intense, more violent. But what? What is there
more important to say? And how can one be violent
about the sort of things one's expected to write
about? Words can be like X-rays, if you use them
properlythey'll go through anything. You read and
you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to
teach my studentshow to write piercingly. But what
on earth's the good of being pierced by an article
about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement
in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really
piercingyou know, like the very hardest X-rays
when you're writing about that sort of thing? Can
you say something about nothing? That's what it
finally boils down to. I try and I try
"
"Hush!" said Bernard suddenly, and lifted a
warning finger; they listened. "I believe there's
somebody at the door," he whispered.
Helmholtz got up, tiptoed across the room,
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