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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Chapter Five

BY EIGHT O'CLOCK the light was failing. The

loud speaker in the tower of the Stoke Poges Club

House began, in a more than human tenor, to

announce the closing of the courses. Lenina and

Henry abandoned their game and walked back

towards the Club. From the grounds of the Internal

and External Secretion Trust came the lowing of

those thousands ofcattle which provided, with their

hormones and their milk, the raw materials for the

great factory at Farnham Royal.

An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the

twilight. Every two and a half minutes a bell and the

screech of whistles announced the departure of one

of the light monorail trains which carried the lower

caste golfers back from their separate course to the

metropolis.

Lenina and Henry climbed into their machine

and started off. At eight hundred feet Henry slowed

down the helicopter screws, and they hung for a

minute or two poised above the fading landscape.

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