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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

struck four. Discarnate voices called from the

trumpet mouths.

"Main Day-shift off duty. Second Day-shift

take over. Main Day-shift off "

In the lift, on their way up to the changing

rooms, Henry Foster and the Assistant Director of

Predestination ratherpointedly turned their backs on

Bernard Marx from the Psychology Bureau: averted

themselves from that unsavoury reputation.

The faint hum and rattle of machinery still

stirred the crimson air in the Embryo Store. Shifts

might come and go, one lupus-coloured face give

place to another; majestically and for ever the

conveyors crept forward with their load of future

men and women.

Lenina Crowne walked briskly towards the

door.

His fordship Mustapha Mond! The eyes of the

saluting students almost popped out of their heads.

Mustapha Mond! The Resident Controller for Western

Europe! One of the Ten World Controllers. One of

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