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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

holes in them and buy new. 'The more stitches, the

less riches.' Isn't that right? Mending's anti-social.

But it's all different here. It's like living with lunatics.

Everything they do is mad." She looked round; saw

John and Bernard had left them and were walking up

and down in the dust and garbage outside the

house; but, none the less confidentially lowering

her voice, and leaning, while Lenina stiffened and

shrank, so close that the blown reek of embryo-

poison stirred the hair on her cheek. "For instance,"

she hoarsely whispered, "take the way they have

one another here. Mad, I tell you, absolutely mad.

Everybody belongs to every one else–don't they?

don't they?" she insisted, tugging at Lenina's

sleeve. Lenina nodded her averted head, let out the

breath she had been holding and managed to draw

another one, relatively untainted. "Well, here," the

other went on, "nobody's supposed to belong to

more than one person. And if you have people in

the ordinary way, the others think you're wicked and

anti-social. They hate and despise you. Once a lot

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