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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


            Director–and 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 disapproved–disapproved 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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