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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

dark, almost colourless in the dead light. Drop,

drop, drop. To-morrow and to-morrow and to-

morrow

He had discovered Time and Death and God.

"Alone, always alone," the young man was

saying.

The words awoke a plaintive echo in

Bernard's mind. Alone, alone "So am I," he said,

on a gush of confidingness. "Terribly alone."

"Are you?" John looked surprised. "I thought

that in the Other Place I mean, Linda always said

that nobody was ever alone there."

Bernard blushed uncomfortably. "You see,"

he said, mumbling and with averted eyes, "I'm

rather different from most people, I suppose. If one

happens to be decanted different "

"Yes, that's just it." The young man nodded.

"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're

beastly to one. Do you know, they shut me out of

absolutely everything? When the other boys were

sent out to spend the night on the mountains–you

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