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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Warden started booming, she had inconspicuously

swallowed half a gramme of soma, with the result

that she could now sit, serenely not listening,

thinking of nothing at all, but with her large blue

eyes fixed on the Warden's face in an expression of

rapt attention.

"To touch the fence is instant death,"

pronounced the Warden solemnly. "There is no

escape from a Savage Reservation."

The word "escape" was suggestive.

"Perhaps," said Bernard, half rising, "we ought to

think of going." The little black needle was

scurrying, an insect, nibbling through time, eating

into his money.

"No escape," repeated the Warden, waving

him back into his chair; and as the permit was not

yet countersigned Bernard had no choice but to

obey. "Those who are born in the Reservation–and

remember, my dear young lady," he added, leering

obscenely at Lenina, and speaking in an improper

whisper, "remember that, in the Reservation,

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