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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
arms round me!"in shoes and socks, perfumed.
Impudent strumpet! But oh, oh, her arms round his
neck, the lifting of her breasts, her mouth! Eternity
was in our lips and eyes. Lenina
No, no, no, no!
He sprang to his feet and, half naked as he was, ran
out of the house. At the edge of the heath stood a
clump of hoary juniper bushes. He flung himself
against them, he embraced, not the smooth body of
his desires, but an armful of green spikes. Sharp,
with a thousand points, they pricked him. He tried
to think of poor Linda, breathless and dumb, with
her clutching hands and the unutterable terror in her
eyes. Poor Linda whom he had sworn to remember.
But it was still the presence of Lenina that haunted
him. Lenina whom he had promised to forget. Even
through the stab and sting of the juniper needles,
his wincing flesh was aware of her, unescapably
real. "Sweet, sweet
And if you wanted me too,
why didn't you
"
The whip was hanging on a nail by the door,
ready to hand against the arrival of reporters. In a
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