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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

and antennæ shot up into the air; touched another

spring on the peak of the brim–and, like a jack-in-

the-box, out jumped a microphone and hung there,

quivering, six inches in front of his nose; pulled

down a pair of receivers over his ears; pressed a

switch on the left side of the hat-and from within

came a faint waspy buzzing; turned aknob on the

right–and the buzzing was interrupted by a

stethoscopic wheeze and cackle, by hiccoughs and

sudden squeaks. "Hullo," he said to the microphone,

"hullo, hullo " A bell suddenly rang inside his hat.

"Is that you, Edzel? Primo Mellon speaking. Yes, I've

got hold of him. Mr. Savage will now take the

microphone and say a few words. Won't you, Mr.

Savage?" He looked up at the Savage with another

of those winning smiles of his. "Just tell our readers

why you came here. What made you leave London

(hold on, Edzel!) so very suddenly. And, of course,

that whip." (The Savage started. How did they

know about the whip?) "We're all crazy to know

about the whip. And then something about

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