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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

of women came and made a scene because their

men came to see me. Well, why not? And then they

rushed at me No, it was too awful. I can't tell you

about it." Linda covered her face with her hands and

shuddered. "They're so hateful, the women here.

Mad, mad and cruel. And of course they don't know

anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or

decanting, or anything of that sort. So they're

having children all the time–like dogs. It's too

revolting. And to think that I Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford!

And yet John was a great comfort to me. I don't

know what I should have done without him. Even

though he did get so upset whenever a man Quite

as a tiny boy, even. Once (but that was when he

was bigger) he tried to kill poor Waihusiwa–or was

it Popé?–just because I used to have them

sometimes. Because I never could make him

understand that that was what civilized people ought

to do. Being mad's infectious I believe. Anyhow,

John seems to have caught it from the Indians.

Because, of course, he was with them a lot. Even

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