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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
having her throat cut.
Feeling that it was time for him to do
something, Bernard also jumped up and shouted: "I
hear him; He's coming." But it wasn't true. He heard
nothing and, for him, nobody was coming. Nobody
in spite of the music, in spite of the mounting
excitement. But he waved his arms, he shouted with
the best of them; and when the others began to jig
and stamp and shuffle, he also jigged and shuffled.
Round they went, a circular procession of
dancers, each with hands on the hips of the dancer
preceding, round and round, shouting in unison,
stamping to the rhythm of the music with their feet,
beating it, beating it out with hands on the buttocks
in front; twelve pairs of hands beating as one; as
one, twelve buttocks slabbily resounding. Twelve as
one, twelve as one. "I hear Him, I hear Him
coming." The music quickened; faster beat the feet,
faster, faster fell the rhythmic hands.And all at once
a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which
announced the approaching atonement and final
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