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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

up.

"Well, that was grand!" he said to himself

when it was all over. "Really grand!" He mopped his

face. When they had put in the feely effects at the

studio, it would be a wonderful film. Almost as good,

thought Darwin Bonaparte, as theSperm Whale's

Love-Life–and that, by Ford, was saying a good

deal!

Twelve days later The Savage of Surrey had

been released and could be seen, heard and felt in

every first-class feely-palace in Western Europe.

The effect of Darwin Bonaparte's film was

immediate and enormous. On the afternoon which

followed the evening ofits release John's rustic

solitude was suddenly broken by the arrival

overhead of a great swarm of helicopters.

He was digging in his garden–digging, too,

in his own mind, laboriously turning up the

substance of his thought. Death–and he drove in his

spade once, and again, and yet again. And all our

yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty

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