From Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
IT WAS
"It was now the turn also for eyes and skin."
From Chapter 11
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
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From Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
FAINT HUM
"With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement."
From Chapter 10
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019
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From The Kindness of Strangers, by Salka Viertel
AT DINNER
"At dinner the young people kept silent, while Aldous talked about cheese."
From Chapter 36
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
Saturday, March 26, 2016
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From Chrome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley
IT WAS
"It was two hours cut clean out of his life; two hours in which he might have done so much, so much -- written the perfect poem, for example, or read the one illuminating book."
From Chapter 1
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Friday, June 14, 2013
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From Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley
SHE LAUGHED
"She laughed on a descending chromatic scale. This was excitingly new."
From Chapter IX
SHE LAUGHED
"She laughed on a descending chromatic scale. This was excitingly new."
From Chapter IX
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
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From Eyeless in Gaza, by Aldous HuxleySHOULD BE
“He had written of the world in general as though the world in general were like himself -- from the desire, of course, that it should be.”
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Friday, May 15, 2009
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