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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

gramme tablets and Henry three. At twenty past

nine they walked across the street to the newly

opened Westminster Abbey Cabaret. It was a night

almost without clouds, moonless and starry; but of

this on the whole depressing fact Lenina and Henry

were fortunately unaware. The electric sky-signs

effectively shut off the outer darkness. "CALVIN

STOPES AND HIS SIXTEEN SEXOPHONISTS." From

the façade of the new Abbey the giant letters

invitingly glared. "LONDON'S FINEST SCENT AND

COLOUR ORGAN. ALL THE LATEST SYNTHETIC

MUSIC."

They entered. The air seemed hot and

somehow breathless with the scent of ambergris and

sandalwood. On the domed ceiling of the hall, the

colour organ had momentarily painted a tropical

sunset. The Sixteen Sexophonists were playing an

old favourite: "There ain't no Bottle in all the world

like that dear little Bottle of mine." Four hundred

couples were five-stepping round the polished floor.

Lenina and Henry were soon the four hundred and

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