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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
There was a silence.
The Director leaned back in his chair,
frowning. "How long ago was it?" he said, speaking
more to himself than to Bernard. "Twenty years, I
suppose. Nearer twenty-five. I must have been your
age
" He sighed and shook his head.
Bernard felt extremely uncomfortable. A
man so conventional, so scrupulously correct as the
Directorand to commit so gross a solecism! lt made
him want to hide his face, to run out of the room.
himself
saw
he
anything
Not
that
intrinsicallyobjectionable in people talking about the
remote past; that was one of those hypnopædic
prejudices he had (so he imagined) completely got
rid of. What made him feel shy was the knowledge
that the Director disapproveddisapproved and yet
had been betrayed into doing the forbidden thing.
Under what inward compulsion? Through his
discomfort Bernard eagerly listened.
"I had the same idea as you," the Director
was saying. "Wanted to have a look at the savages.
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