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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley


            scale. Anything not to consume. Back to nature."


                           "I do love flying. I do love flying."


                           "Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture.


            You can't consume much if you sit still and read


            books."


                           "Do I look all right?" Lenina asked. Her



            jacket was made of bottle green acetate cloth with


            green viscose fur; at the cuffs and collar.


                           "Eight hundred Simple Lifers were mowed


            down by machine guns at Golders Green."


                           "Ending is better than mending, ending is


            better than mending."


                           Green corduroy shorts and white viscose-


            woollen stockings turned down below the knee.


                           "Then came the famous British Museum


            Massacre. Two thousand culture fans gassed with


            dichlorethyl sulphide."



                           A green-and-white jockey cap shaded


            Lenina's eyes; her shoes were bright green and


            highly polished.


                           "In the end," said Mustapha Mond, "the






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