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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

it carefully over the back of a chair, he began to

suspect that he had been mistaken.

"Lenina!" he repeated apprehensively.

She put her hand to her neck and gave a

long vertical pull; her white sailor's blouse was

ripped to the hem; suspicion condensed into a too,

too solid certainty. "Lenina, what are you doing?"

Zip, zip! Her answer was wordless. She

stepped out of her bell-bottomed trousers. Her

zippicamiknicks were a paleshell pink. The Arch-

Community-Songster's golden T dangled at her

breast.

"For those milk paps that through the

window bars bore at men's eyes...." The singing,

thundering, magical words made her seem doubly

dangerous, doubly alluring. Soft, soft, but how

piercing! boring and drilling into reason, tunnelling

through resolution. "The strongest oaths are straw

to the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious, or else

"

Zip! The rounded pinkness fell apart like a

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