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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

"thou shrieking harbinger" he smiled with sudden

pleasure; at "every fowl of tyrant wing" the blood

rushed up into his cheeks; but at "defunctive music"

he turned pale and trembled with an unprecedented

emotion. The Savage read on:

"Property was thus appall'd, That the self

was not the same; Single nature's double name

Neither two nor one was call'd Reason in itself

confounded Saw division grow together "

"Orgy-porgy!" said Bernard, interrupting the

reading with a loud, unpleasant laugh. "It's just a

Solidarity Service hymn." He was revenging himself

on his two friends for liking one another more than

they liked him.

In the course of their next two or three

meetings he frequently repeated this little act of

vengeance. It was simple and, since both Helmholtz

and the Savage were dreadfully pained by the

shattering and defilement of a favourite poetic

crystal, extremely effective. In the end, Helmholtz

threatened to kick him out of the room if he dared to

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