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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
"The Savage," wrote Bernard in his report to
Mustapha Mond, "shows surprisingly little
astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions.
This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that he has
heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his
m."
(Mustapha Mond frowned. "Does the fool
think I'm too squeamish to see the word written out
at full length?")
"Partly on his interest being focussed on
what he calls 'the soul,' which he persists in
regarding as an entity independent of the physical
environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him
"
The Controller skipped the next sentences
and was just about to turn the page in search of
something more interestingly concrete, when his eye
was caught by a series of quite extraordinary
phrases. "
though I must admit," he read, "that I
agree with the Savage in finding civilized infantility
too easy or, as he puts it, not expensive enough;
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