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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Well, I gave them that as an example, and

they reported me to the Principal."

"I'm not surprised," said Bernard. "It's flatly

against all their sleep-teaching. Remember, they've

had at least a quarter of a million warnings against

solitude."

"I know. But I thought I'd like to see what

the effect would be."

"Well, you've seen now."

Helmholtz only laughed. "I feel," he said,

after a silence, as though I were just beginning to

have something to write about. As though I were

beginning to be able to use that power I feel I've got

inside me–that extra, latent power.Something

seems to be coming to me." In spite of all his

troubles, he seemed, Bernard thought, profoundly

happy.

Helmholtz and the Savage took to one

another at once. So cordially indeed that Bernard

felt a sharp pang of jealousy. In all these weeks he

had never come to so close an intimacy with the

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