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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
the helicopter screws out of gear. The machine had
enough forward momentum to be able to fly on its
planes.
Lenina looked down through the window in
the floor between her feet. They were flying over the
six kilometre zone of park-land that separated
Central London from its first ring of satellite
suburbs. The green was maggoty with fore-
shortened life. Forests of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy
towers gleamed between the trees. Near Shepherd's
Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were
playing Riemann-surface tennis. A double row of
Escalator Fives Courts lined the main roadfrom
Notting Hill to Willesden. In the Ealing stadium a
Delta gymnastic display and community sing was in
progress.
"What a hideous colour khaki is," remarked
Lenina, voicing the hypnopædic prejudices of her
caste.
The buildings of the Hounslow Feely Studio
covered seven and a half hectares. Near them a
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