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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Bonaparte had time to reflect, as he moved among

his instruments, the greatest since his taking of the

famous all-howling stereoscopic feely of the gorillas'

wedding."Splendid," he said to himself, as the

Savage started his astonishing performance.

"Splendid!" He kept his telescopic cameras carefully

aimed–glued to their moving objective; clapped on a

higher power to get a close-up of the frantic and

distorted face (admirable!); switched over, for half a

minute, to slow motion (an exquisitely comical

effect, he promised himself); listened in,

meanwhile, to the blows, the groans, the wild and

raving words that were being recorded on the

sound-track at the edge of his film, tried the effect

of a little amplification (yes, that was decidedly

better); was delighted to hear, in a momentary lull,

the shrill singing of a lark; wished the Savage would

turn round so that he could get a good close-up of

the blood on his back–and almost instantly (what

astonishing luck!) the accommodating fellow did

turn round, and he was able to take a perfect close-

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