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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

"Why not?"

"He said he wanted to go on with the

experiment. But I'm damned," the Savage added,

with sudden fury, "I'm damned if I'll go on being

experimented with. Not for all the Controllers in the

world. l shall go away to-morrow too."

"But where?" the others asked in unison.

The Savage shrugged his shoulders.

"Anywhere. I don't care. So long as I can be alone."

From Guildford the down-line followed the

Wey valley to Godalming, then, over Milford and

Witley, proceeded toHaslemere and on through

Petersfield towards Portsmouth. Roughly parallel to

it, the upline passed over Worplesden, Tongham,

Puttenham, Elstead and Grayshott. Between the

Hog's Back and Hindhead there were points where

the two lines were not more than six or seven

kilometres apart. The distance was too small for

careless flyers–particularly at night and when they

had taken half a gramme too much. There had been

accidents. Serious ones. It had been decided to

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