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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

was saying as they entered the Hospital. His face

was flushed, his eyes bright with ardour and

indignation. "Do you like being babies? Yes, babies.

Mewling and puking," he added, exasperated by

their bestial stupidity into throwing insults at those

he had come to save. The insults bounced off their

carapace of thick stupidity; they stared at him with

a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in

their eyes. "Yes, puking!" he fairlyshouted. Grief and

remorse, compassion and duty–all were forgotten

now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense

overpowering hatred of these less than human

monsters. "Don't you want to be free and men?

Don't you even understand what manhood and

freedom are?" Rage was making him fluent; the

words came easily, in a rush. "Don't you?" he

repeated, but got no answer to his question. "Very

well then," he went on grimly. "I'll teach you; I'll

make you be free whether you want to or not." And

pushing open a window that looked on to the inner

court of the Hospital, he began to throw the little

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