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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
That's what I feel. I mean I'd sweep the floor if you
wanted."
"But we've got vacuum cleaners here," said
Lenina in bewilderment. "It isn't necessary."
"No, of course it isn't necessary. But some
kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. I'd like to
undergo something nobly. Don't you see?"
"But if there are vacuum cleaners
"
"That's not the point."
"And Epsilon Semi-Morons to work them,"
she went on, "well, really, why?"
"Why? But for you, for you. Just to show
that I
"
"And what on earth vacuum cleaners have
got to do with lions
"
"To show how much
"
"Or lions with being glad to see me
" She
was getting more and more exasperated.
"How much I love you, Lenina," he brought
out almost desperately.
An emblem of the inner tide of startled
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