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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

away and pretend to be looking very hard at

something on the other side of the square.

Bernard's questions made a diversion. Who?

How? When? From where? Keeping his eyes fixed on

Bernard's face (for so passionately did he long to

see Lenina smiling that he simply dared not look at

her), the young man tried to explain himself. Linda

and he–Linda was his mother (the word made

Lenina look uncomfortable)–were strangers in the

Reservation. Linda had come from the Other Place

long ago, before he was born, with a man who was

his father. (Bernard pricked up his ears.) She had

gone walking alone in those mountains over there to

the North, had fallen down a steep place and hurt

her head. ("Go on, go on," said Bernard excitedly.)

Some hunters from Malpais had found her and

brought her to the pueblo. As for the man who was

his father, Linda had never seen him again. His

name was Tomakin. (Yes, "Thomas" was the

D.H.C.'s first name.) He must have flown away,

back to the Other Place, away without her–a bad,

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