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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

in a pained bewilderment.

"Why?" The Provost turned towards him a

still broadly grinning face. "Why? But because it's so

extraordinarily funny."

In the cinematographic twilight, Bernard

risked a gesture which, in the past, even total

darkness would hardly haveemboldened him to

make. Strong in his new importance, he put his arm

around the Head Mistress's waist. It yielded,

willowily. He was just about to snatch a kiss or two

and perhaps a gentle pinch, when the shutters

clicked open again.

"Perhaps we had better go on," said Miss

Keate, and moved towards the door.

"And this," said the Provost a moment later,

"is Hypnopædic Control Room."

Hundreds of synthetic music boxes, one for

each dormitory, stood ranged in shelves round three

sides of the room;pigeon-holed on the fourth were

the paper sound-track rolls on which the various

hypnopædic lessons were printed.

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