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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

"Whenever you like." And she would tell him

about the lovely music that came out of a box, and

all the nice games you could play, and the delicious

things to eat and drink, and the light that came

when you pressed a little thing in the wall, and the

pictures that you could hear and feel and smell, as

well as see, and another box for making nice smells,

and the pink and green and blue and silver houses

as high as mountains, and everybody happy and no

one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to

every one else, and the boxes where you could see

and hear what was happening at the other side of

the world, and babies in lovely clean bottles–

everything so clean, and no nasty smells, no dirt at

all–and people never lonely, but living together and

being so jolly and happy, like the summer dances

here in Malpais, but much happier, and the

happiness being there every day, every day. He

listened by the hour. And sometimes, when he and

the other children were tired with too much playing,

one of the old men of the pueblo would talk to them,

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