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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

walked in silence, and in silence, behind them, came

the brothers and sisters and cousins and all the

troop of old people.

They walked out of the pueblo, across the

mesa. At the edge of the cliff they halted, facing the

early morning sun. Kothlu opened his hand. A pinch

of corn meal lay white on the palm; he breathed on

it, murmured a few words, then threw it, a handful

of white dust, towards the sun. Kiakimé did the

same. Then Khakimé's father stepped forward, and

holding up a feathered prayer stick, made a long

prayer, then threw the stick after the corn meal.

"It is finished," said old Mitsima in a loud

voice. "They are married."

"Well," said Linda, as they turned away, "all

I can say is, it does seem a lot of fuss to make

about so little. In civilized countries, when a boy

wants to have a girl, he just But where are you

going, John?"

He paid no attention to her calling, but ran

on, away, away, anywhere to be by himself.

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