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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

came back from the bathroom, "Fanny Crowne

wants to know where you found that lovely green

morocco-surrogate cartridge belt you gave me."

§ 2

ALTERNATE Thursdays were Bernard's

Solidarity Service days. After an early dinner at the

Aphroditzeum (to which Helrnholtz had recently

been elected under Rule Two) he took leave of his

friend and, hailing a taxi on the roof told the man to

fly to the Fordson Community Singery. The machine

rose a couple of hundred metres, then headed

eastwards, and as it turned, there before Bernard's

eyes, gigantically beautiful, was the Singery. Flood-

lighted, its three hundred and twenty metres of

white Carrara-surrogate gleamed with a snowy

incandescence over Ludgate Hill; at each of the four

corners of itshelicopter platform an immense T

shone crimson against the night, and from the

mouths of twenty-four vast golden trumpets

rumbled a solemn synthetic music.

"Damn, I'm late," Bernard said to himself as

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