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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Beta Embryo-Store Workers. It took him a quarter

of an hour to read the title alone. He threw the book

on the floor. "Beastly, beastly book!" he said, and

began to cry.

The boys still sang their horrible song about

Linda. Sometimes, too, they laughed at him for

being so ragged. When he tore his clothes, Linda did

not know how to mend them. In the Other Place,

she told him, people threw away clothes with holes

in them and got new ones. "Rags, rags!" the boys

used to shout at him. "But I can read," he said to

himself, "and they can't. They don't even know

what reading is." It was fairly easy, if he thought

hard enough about the reading, to pretend that he

didn't mind when they made fun of him. He asked

Linda to give him the book again.

The more the boys pointed and sang, the

harder he read. Soon he could read all the words

quite well. Even the longest. But what did they

mean? He asked Linda; but even when she could

answer it didn't seem to make it very clear, And

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