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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

the Savage sniffed and listened. It was now the turn

also for eyes and skin.

The house lights went down; fiery letters

stood out solid and as though self-supported in the

darkness. THREE WEEKS IN A HELICOPTER . AN

ALL-SUPER-SINGING, SYNTHETIC-TALK1NG,

COLOURED, STEREOSCOPIC FEELY. WITH

SYNCHRONIZED SCENT-ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT.

"Take hold of those metal knobs on the arms

of your chair," whispered Lenina. "Otherwise you

won't get any of the feely effects."

The Savage did as he was told.

Those fiery letters, meanwhile, had

disappeared; there were ten seconds of complete

darkness; then suddenly, dazzling and incomparably

more solid-looking than they would have seemed in

actual flesh and blood, far more real than reality,

there stood the stereoscopic images, locked in one

another's arms, of a gigantic negro and a golden-

haired youngbrachycephalic Beta-Plus female.

The Savage started. That sensation on his

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