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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

and I would like to take this opportunity of drawing

your fordship's attention to "

Mustapha Mond's anger gave place almost at

once to mirth. The idea of this creature solemnly

lecturing him–him-about the social order was really

too grotesque. The man must have gone mad. "I

ought to give him a lesson," he said to himself;

then threw back his head and laughed aloud. For the

moment, at any rate, the lesson would not be given.

It was a small factory of lighting-sets for

helicopters, a branch of the Electrical Equipment

Corporation. They were met on the roof itself (for

that circular letter of recommendation from the

Controller was magical in its effects) by the Chief

Technician and the Human Element Manager. They

walked downstairs into the factory.

"Each process," explained the Human

Element Manager, "is carried out, so far as possible,

by a single Bokanovsky Group."

And, in effect, eighty-three almost noseless

black brachycephalic Deltas were cold-pressing. The

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