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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Increase. Now the world has four wombs; and he

laid the seeds in the lowest of the four wombs. And

gradually the seeds began to grow "

One day (John calculated later that it must

have been soon after his twelfth birthday) he came

home and found a book that he had never seen

before lying on the floor in the bedroom. It was a

thick book and looked very old. The binding had

been eaten by mice; some of its pages were loose

and crumpled. He picked it up, looked at the title-

page: the book was called The Complete Works of

William Shakespeare.

Linda was lying on the bed, sipping that

horrible stinking mescal out of a cup. "Popé brought

it," she said. Her voice was thick and hoarse like

somebody else's voice. "It was lying in one of the

chests of the Antelope Kiva. It's supposed to have

been there for hundreds of years. I expect it's true,

because I looked at it, and it seemed to be full of

nonsense. Uncivilized. Still, it'll be good enough for

you to practice your reading on." She took a last sip,

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