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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
"Perhaps you need a Pregnancy Substitute," he
suggested. "Or else an extra-strong V.P.S.
treatment. Sometimes, you know, the standard
passion surrogate isn't quite
"
"Oh, for Ford's sake," said Lenina, breaking
her stubborn silence, "shut up!" And she turned
back to her neglected embryos.
A V.P.S. treatment indeed! She would have
laughed, if she hadn't been on the point of crying.
As though she hadn't got enough V. P. of her own!
She sighed profoundly as she refilled her syringe.
"John," she murmured to herself, "John
" Then
"My Ford," she wondered, "have I given this one its
sleeping sickness injection, or haven't I?" She simply
couldn't remember. In the end, she decided not to
run the risk of letting it have a second dose, and
moved down the line to the next bottle.
Twenty-two years, eight months, and four
days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-
Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die
of trypanosomiasisthe first case for over half a
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