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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

estrangement, Bernard poured out the tale of his

miseries and accepted consolation. It was not till

some days later that he learned, to his surprise and

with a twinge of shame, that he was not the only

one whohad been in trouble. Helmholtz had also

come into conflict with Authority.

"It was over some rhymes," he explained. "I

was giving my usual course of Advanced Emotional

Engineering for Third Year Students. Twelve

lectures, of which the seventh is about rhymes. 'On

the Use of Rhymes in Moral Propaganda and

Advertisement,' to be precise. I always illustrate my

lecture with a lot of technical examples. This time I

thought I'd give them one I'd just written myself.

Pure madness, of course; but I couldn't resist it." He

laughed. "I was curious to see what their reactions

would be. Besides," he added more gravely, "I

wanted to do a bit of propaganda; I was trying to

engineer them into feeling as I'd felt when I wrote

the rhymes. Ford!" He laughed again. "What an

outcry there was! The Principal had me up and

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