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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Tuesday, two more on Friday, and one on Saturday.

And if I'd had the time or the inclination, there were

at least a dozen more who were only too anxious "

Helmholtz listened to his boastings in a

silence so gloomily disapproving that Bernard was

offended.

"You're envious," he said.

Helmholtz shook his head. "I'm rather sad,

that's all," he answered.

Bernard went off in a huff. Never, he told

himself, never would he speak to Helmholtz again.

The days passed. Success went fizzily to

Bernard's head, and in the process completely

reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do)

to a world which, up till then, he had found very

unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as

important, the order of things was good. But,

reconciled by his success, he yet refused to forego

the privilege of criticizing this order. For the act of

criticizing heightened his sense of importance, made

him feel larger. Moreover, he did genuinely believe

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