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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

generally she couldn't answer at all.

"What are chemicals?" he would ask.

"Oh, stuff like magnesium salts, and alcohol

for keeping the Deltas and Epsilons small and

backward, and calcium carbonate for bones, and all

that sort of thing."

"But how do you make chemicals, Linda?

Where do they come from?"

"Well, I don't know. You get them out of

bottles. And when the bottles are empty, you send

up to the Chemical Store for more. It's the

Chemical Store people who make them, I suppose.

Or else they send to the factory for them. I don't

know. I never did any chemistry. My job was always

with the embryos. It was the same with everything

else he asked about. Linda never seemed to know.

The old men of the pueblo had much more definite

answers.

"The seed of men and all creatures, the seed

of the sun and the seed of earth and the seed of the

sky–Awonawilona made them all out of the Fog of

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