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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Chapter Fifteen

THE menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital

for the Dying consisted of one hundred and sixty-

two Deltas divided into two Bokanovsky Groups of

eighty-four red headed female and seventy-eight

dark dolychocephalic male twins, respectively. At

six, when their working day was over, the two

Groups assembled in the vestibule of the Hospital

and were served by the Deputy Sub-Bursar with

their soma ration.

From the lift the Savage stepped out into the

midst of them. But his mind was elsewhere–with

death, with his grief, and his remorse; mechanicaly,

without consciousness of what he was doing, he

began to shoulder his way through the crowd.

"Who are you pushing? Where do you think

you're going?"

High, low, from a multitude of separate

throats, only two voices squeaked or growled.

Repeated indefinitely, asthough by a train of

mirrors, two faces, one a hairless and freckled moon

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