Sex is spoken about casually, monogamy and motherhood are absurd concepts, and everyone lives to ensure everyone’s happiness. There is no passion, and people go through their days fulfilling their duties and taking mind-relaxing/numbing drugs. It’s difficult to briefly delineate the place the characters inhabit, but it’s basically a world in which one is biologically engineered and born into a specific caste. Indeed, Aldous Huxley created a society in which consumerism and sex run rampant. Rich with a wealth of harmonics, their tremulous chorus mounted towards a climax. “The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon, moaned in the alto and tenor registers as though the little death were upon them. Here is a quote that made me think (I sent it to a friend via text, too): No! Not books! Condition them to detest Doritos or cottage cheese – anything but books! They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.’ ‘They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. Why would anyone electrocute innocent babies, you ask? I felt pretty anguished and surprised when I read about babies being electrocuted on page 20.
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