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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
he could talk about the subjects he felt to be
important. Nevertheless, there were things in
Bernard which he hated. This boasting, for example.
And the outbursts of an abject self-pity with which it
alternated. And his deplorable habit of being bold
after the event, and full, in absence, of the most
extraordinary presence of mind. He hated these
thingsjust because he liked Bernard. The seconds
passed. Helmholtz continued to stare at the floor.
And suddenly Bernard blushed and turned away.
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THE journey was quite uneventful. The Blue
Pacific Rocket was two and a half minutes early at
New Orleans, lost four minutes in a tornado over
Texas, but flew into a favourable air current at
Longitude 95 West, and was able to land at Santa Fé
less than forty seconds behind schedule time.
"Forty seconds on a six and a half hour
flight. Not so bad," Lenina conceded.
They slept that night at Santa Fé. The hotel
was excellentincomparably better, for example,
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