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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : chapter two - 10 views

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  • The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time."
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : chapter six - 9 views

shared by thomaswlogan on 16 Feb 10 - Cached
  • "You can't teach a rhinoceros tricks," he had explained in his brief and vigorous style. "Some men are almost rhinoceroses; they don't respond properly to conditioning. Poor Devils! Bernard's one of them. Luckily for him, he's pretty good at his job. Otherwise the Director would never have kept him. However," he added consolingly, "I think he's pretty harmless." Pretty harmless, perhaps; but also pretty disquieting. That mania, to start with, for doing things in private. Which meant, in practice, not doing anything at all. For what was there that one could do in private.
  • "Then what's time for?"
  • Perhaps he had found her too plump, after all.
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  • one of those hypnopædic prejudices he had (so he imagined) completely got rid of.
  • brachycephalic
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