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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

century. Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.

An hour later, in the Changing Room, Fanny

was energetically protesting. "But it's absurd to let

yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd,"

she repeated. "And what about? A man–one man."

"But he's the one I want."

"As though there weren't millions of other

men in the world."

"But I don't want them."

"How can you know till you've tried?"

"I have tried."

"But how many?" asked Fanny, shrugging

her shoulders contemptuously. "One, two?"

"Dozens. But," shaking her head, "it wasn't

any good," she added.

"Well, you must persevere," said Fanny

sententiously. But it was obvious that her confidence

in her own prescriptions had been shaken. "Nothing

can be achieved without perseverance."

"But meanwhile "

"Don't think of him."

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