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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

"Help! Help! HELP!"

The policemen pushed him out of the way

and got on with their work. Three men with spraying

machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick

clouds of soma vapour into the air. Two more were

busy round the portable Synthetic Music Box.

Carrying water pistols charged with a powerful

anæsthetic, four others had pushed their way into

the crowd and weremethodically laying out, squirt

by squirt, the more ferocious of the fighters.

"Quick, quick!" yelled Bernard. "They'll be

killed if you don't hurry. They'll Oh!" Annoyed by

his chatter, one of the policemen had given him a

shot from his water pistol. Bernard stood for a

second or two wambling unsteadily on legs that

seemed to have lost their bones, their tendons, their

muscles, to have become mere sticks of jelly, and at

last not even jelly-water: he tumbled in a heap on

the floor.

Suddenly, from out of the Synthetic Music

Box a Voice began to speak. The Voice of Reason,

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