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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly,

what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual

isolation), how could they be stable?

"Of course there's no need to give him up.

Have somebody else from time to time, that's all. He

has other girls, doesn't he?"

Lenina admitted it.

"Of course he does. Trust Henry Foster to be

the perfect gentleman–always correct. And then

there's the Director to think of. You know what a

stickler "

Nodding, "He patted me on the behind this

afternoon," said Lenina.

"There, you see!" Fanny was triumphant.

"That shows what he stands for. The strictest

conventionality."

"Stability," said the Controller, "stability. No

civilization without social stability. No social stability

without individualstability." His voice was a trumpet.

Listening they felt larger, warmer.

The machine turns, turns and must keep on

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