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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Savage as Helmholtz immediately achieved.

Watching them, listening to their talk, he found

himself sometimes resentfully wishing that he had

never brought them together. He was ashamed of

his jealousy and alternately made efforts of will and

took soma to keep himself from feeling it. But the

efforts were not very successful; and between the

soma-holidays there were, of necessity, intervals.

The odioussentiment kept on returning.

At his third meeting with the Savage,

Helmholtz recited his rhymes on Solitude.

"What do you think of them?" he asked

when he had done.

The Savage shook his head. "Listen to this,"

was his answer; and unlocking the drawer in which

he kept his mouse-eaten book, he opened and

read:

"Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole

Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be "

Helmholtz listened with a growing

excitement. At "sole Arabian tree" he started; at

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