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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
images of the television box were the performers in
some indescribably delicious all-singing feely;
where the dripping patchouli was more than scent
was the sun, was a million saxophones, was
Popémaking love, only much more so, incomparably
more, and without end.
"No, we can't rejuvenate. But I'm very glad,"
Dr. Shaw had concluded, "to have had this
opportunity to see anexample of senility in a human
being. Thank you so much for calling me in." He
shook Bernard warmly by the hand.
It was John, then, they were all after. And
as it was only through Bernard, his accredited
guardian, that John could be seen, Bernard now
found himself, for the first time in his life, treated
not merely normally, but as a person of outstanding
importance. There was no more talk of the alcohol in
his blood-surrogate, no gibes at his personal
appearance. Henry Foster went out of his way to be
friendly; Benito Hoover made him a present of six
packets of sex-hormone chewing-gum; the Assistant
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