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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

obsession in the melted bowels. The Second

Solidarity Hymn was sung.

"Come, Greater Being, Social Friend,

Annihilating Twelve-in-One! We long to die, for when

we end, Our larger life has but begun."

Again twelve stanzas. By this time the soma

had begun to work. Eyes shone, cheeks were

flushed, the inner light of universal benevolence

broke out on every face in happy, friendly smiles.

Even Bernard felt himself a little melted. When

Morgana Rothschild turned and beamed at him, he

did his best to beam back. But the eyebrow, that

black two-in-one–alas, it was still there; he couldn't

ignore it, couldn't, however hard he tried. The

melting hadn't gone far enough. Perhaps if he had

been sitting between Fifi and Joanna For the third

time the loving cup went round; "I drink to the

imminence of His Coming," said Morgana Rothschild,

whose turn it happened to be to initiate the circular

rite. Her tone was loud, exultant. She drank and

passed the cup to Bernard. "I drink to the

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