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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

conditioning into a cocked hat. He developed for the

Beta blonde an exclusive and maniacal passion. She

protested. He persisted. There were struggles,

pursuits, an assault on a rival, finally a sensational

kidnapping. The Beta blond was ravished away into

the sky and kept there, hovering, for three weeks in

a wildly anti-social tête-à-tête with the black

madman. Finally, after a whole series of adventures

and much aerial acrobacy three handsome young

Alphas succeeded in rescuing her. The negro was

packed off to an Adult Re-conditioning Centre and

the film ended happily and decorously, with the Beta

blonde becoming the mistress of all her three

rescuers. They interrupted themselves for a

moment to sing a synthetic quartet, with full super-

orchestral accompaniment and gardenias on the

scent organ. Then the bearskin made a final

appearance and, amid a blare of saxophones, the

last stereoscopic kiss faded into darkness, the last

electric titillation died on the lips like a dying moth

that quivers, quivers, ever more feebly, ever more

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