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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Surrey heath. The crowds that daily left London, left

it only to play Electro-magnetic Golf or Tennis.

Puttenham possessed no links; the nearest

Riemann-surfaces were at Guildford. Flowers and a

landscape were the only attractions here. And so, as

there was no good reason for coming, nobody

came. During the first days the Savage lived alone

and undisturbed.

Of the money which, on his first arrival, John

had received for his personal expenses, most had

been spent on his equipment. Before leaving London

he had bought four viscose-woollen blankets, rope

and string, nails, glue, a few tools, matches (though

he intended in due course to make a fire drill), some

pots and pans, two dozen packets of seeds, and ten

kilogrammes of wheat flour. "No, not synthetic

starch and cotton-waste flour-substitute," he had

insisted. "Even though it is more nourishing." But

when it came to pan-glandular biscuits and

vitaminized beef-surrogate, he had not been able to

resist the shopman's persuasion. Looking at the tins

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