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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his

physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense

of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being

slighted made him avoid his equals, made him

stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-

consciously on his dignity. How bitterly he envied

men like Henry Foster and Benito Hoover! Men who

never had to shout at an Epsilon to get an order

obeyed; men who took theirposition for granted;

men who moved through the caste system as a fish

through water–so utterly at home as to be unaware

either of themselves or of the beneficent and

comfortable element in which they had their being.

Slackly, it seemed to him, and with

reluctance, the twin attendants wheeled his plane

out on the roof.

"Hurry up!" said Bernard irritably. One of

them glanced at him. Was that a kind of bestial

derision that he detected in those blank grey eyes?

"Hurry up!" he shouted more loudly, and there was

an ugly rasp in his voice.

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