Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Dramatis personae:
Bernard Marx, protagonist
Cardinal Newman p336
Maine de Biran, Philosopher, p336
Vocabulary
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attainment
Leistung
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duly
ordnungsgemäß, ordentlich
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wedded
vermählt, heiratete
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officiously
aufdringlich, übereifrig
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smut
beschmutzen, berußen
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indefatigably
rastlos, unermüdlich
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sibilant
zischend, scharf
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boskage
Gebüsch
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soliloquized
führte Selbstgespräche
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effusive
überschwänglich, schwärmerisch, übermäßig
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chypre
Zypern Parfüms
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squalid
verkommen, verwahrlost
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incomgrous
unpassend, unvereinbar
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untended
ungepflegt, vernachlässigt, unbehütet
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coaxing
schmeichelnd
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sententiously
salbungsvoll, geschwollen, kurz und prägnant
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mutton
Hammelfleisch
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black-patent bandolier
schwarz leder Schulterband (Handtasche)
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crevice
Spalte, Kluft
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rapturously
begeistert, entzückt, hingerissen
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vivaciously
lebhaft
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cordiality
Herzlichkeit, Gemütlichkeit
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stag-beetle
Hirschkäfer
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cockchafer
Maikäfer
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incandescence
Glühen, Leuchten
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contemptuous
verächtlich, herablassend
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lustrous
glänzend, schimmernd
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waylaid
aufgelauert
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plaintive
wehleidig, schwermütig
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uprush
a sudden increase
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lowing
Muhen, Geblöke
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pullulation
Knospung
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deturgescence
abschwellen (bio.), hier: nachlassen
p116
diminuendo
abnehmend
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atonement
Wiedergutmachung, Sühne, Versöhnung
p121
indefatigable
unermüdlich, rastlos
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plangently
widerhallend
p122
yearning
sesehnsüchtig, verlangend
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stanza
Balladenstrophe
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exultant
jubelnd, frohlockend
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tauter
gespannter, straffer
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prone
liegend
p128
supine
träge
p135
derisively
spöttisch, verächtlich
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agitated astonishment
beunruhigte Verwunderung
p142
solecism
Fauxpas, Ungeschicklichkeit, Schnitzer
p144
reminiscence
Rückerinnerung
p144
indecorous
unziemlich
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malignant
bösartig, böswillig
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tonic
kräftigend, nervenstärkend
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affliction
Krankheit, Leiden, Gebrechen
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serenely
gleichmütig, gelassen
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sullenly
mürrisch
p159
precipice
steiler Abhang, Abgrund, Felshang
p159
gunwale
Schandeck
p161
indignant incredulity
ungehaltene Ungläubigkeit
p162
tremulous
zitternd
p162
gleamed
glänzte
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goitre
Kropf
p167
innocuous
harmlos
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tramped
stampfte
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inexorably
unaufhaltsam, erbarmungslos, unerbittlich
p170
pueblo
indianische Siedlung
p170
plaited
geflochten, gezopft
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begat
p174
incredulously
ungläubig, skeptisch, zweifelnd
p176
peyotl
p178
untainted
makellos, einwandfrei, unverdorben
p185
gourd
Kalebasse, Kürbisflasche
p185
dreadful
furchtbar,entsetzlich
p189
jolly
fröhlich, vergnügt
p189
Malpais
Kraterlandschaft
p195
lecherous
lüstern, geil, wollüstig
p195
landless
landlos, grundbesitzlos
p195
plaits
Strangzahl(Strang)
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giddy
schwindlig, oberflächlich, leichtfertig
p196
incestuous
inzestuös, blutschänderisch
p200
borne
getragen, ertragen, ausgestanden
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plaintive
wehleidig, schwermütig, traurig
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puckered
gerunzelt, hervortretend, höckerig
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pitiful
bemitleidenswert, erbärmlich, kläglich
p204
profoundly
zutiefst, ungemein
p204
squeamish
zimperlich, empfindlich
p204
cordiality
Herzlichkeit, Gemütlichkeit
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beauteous
schön
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viscose
Viskose, Glanzstoff
p205
lustrous
glänzend, schimmernd, leuchtend
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pensive
nachdenklich, besinnlich, versonnen
p207
octoroon
A person having white ancestors except for one black great-grandparent, Someone having one-eighth black ancestry
p208
deferential
respektvoll, ehrerbietig, rücksichtsvoll
p210
velveteen
Baumwollsamt, Rippensamt
p210
zippicamiknicks
Bluse, Hose?
p211
gait
Gang, Gangart
p212
destestable
abscheulich, widerwärtig
p212
vestal
jungfräulich
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gorged
sich übergessen, voll fressen
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recapitulate
rekapitulieren, zusammenfassen
p217
veneer
übertünchen, verblenden
p217
jaunty
fröhlich, keck, munter
p217
portentously
bedeutungsschwer, unheilvoll
p218
ignominy
Schande, Schmach, Niederträchtigkeit
p218
forthwith
unverzüglich, umgehend, sofort
p219
coquettishly
kokett
p219
voluptuous
erotisch, üppig, verlockend, wollüstig
p219
undulation
Wellenbewegung, Schwingung
p219
haunches
Hüften, Gesäß
p219
indignantly
empört, ungehalten, entrüstet
p220
petrified
gelähmt, versteinert
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trembled
erzittert
p220
agonized
gequält
p220
grimace
Grimasse, Fratze
p220
titter
kichern
p220
irrepressibly
unbändig, unbezähmbar
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smutty
schmutzig, zotig
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peal
Geläut, Dröhnen
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quaint
reizend, urig, wunderlich, goldig
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clamoured
schrie, zeterte
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demurred
zögerte, eingewandt
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Thenceforward
von da an, seit jener Zeit
p227
patchouli tap
Indischer Patschuli (Zapf-)Hahn
p228
gibes
verhöhnt, verspottet
p228
cadged
geschnorrt, schnorrte
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abjectly
unterwürfig, erbärmlich, demütig
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carping
nörgelnd, tadelsüchtig
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elation
Euphorie, Hochgefühl, Freude, Stolz
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mirth
Heiterkeit, Fröhlichkeit, Freude, Frohsinn
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prognathous
vorspringendes Kinn, vorstehender Kiefer
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laurels
Lorbeeren, Lauraceen
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Provost
Vorsteher, Hochschulleiter, Universitätsverwaltungsdirektor, Militärpolizist
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apprehensively
bedenklich, besorgt, ängstlich, begreifend
p239
vitrified
verglast (Vitrine)
p243
tarragon
Estragon, Bertramkraut
p243
ambergris
Ambra, grauer Amber
p243
hyper-violin
sci-fi violin
p243
super-cello
sci-fi cello
p243
oboe-surrogate
sci-fi oboe
p243
languor
Verträumtheit, Apathie, Schläfrigkeit
p247
indignantly
empört, ungehalten, entrüstet
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ignoble
unehrenhaft, unedel, unwürdig, schändlich, gemein
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foreshortened
zeichnete perspektivisch, (verkürzt)
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unsavoury
geschmacklos, widerlich, unappetitlich
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scathing
verletzend, beleidigend, vernichtend
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unwonted
ungewohnt
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exultation
Jubel, Hochgefühl
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sepulchral
düster, Grab-
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admissible
zulässig, erlaubt
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discomfited
verwirrt, besiegt
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magnanimity
Großzügigkeit, Großmut, Edelmut
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odious
abscheulich, abstoßend, widerlich
p267
defilement
Besudelung, Verunreinigung, Schändung
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guffawing
laut lachend
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quenchlessly
unauslöschbar, unlöschlich
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mollified
besänftigt
p270
excruciating
qualvoll, unerträglich, entsetzlich
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weariness
Müdigkeit, Überdruss, Abspannung
p272
pallor
Blässe
p272
trifle
Kleinigkeit, Bagatelle
p272
adage
Sprichwort, Spruch
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rakishly
salopp, verwegen
p276
reverently
ehrfürchtig, ehrfurchtsvoll
p276
peerless
einzigartig, unvergleichlich, beispiellos
p277
oaf
Ochse, Dummkopf
p278
baseness
Gemeinheit, Niedertracht, Falschheit
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exasperated
verzweifelt, verärgert, gereizt
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doth
tut (shakespearean "does")
p281
stereoscopic
stereoskopisch
p281
blackamoor
Mohr (person)
p281
reproachful
vorwurfsvoll, tadelnd
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apprehensively
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abstemious
bedenklich, ängstlich, begreifend
p283
inexplicable
unerklärlich, unfassbar
p283
Aghast
entsetzt, fassungslos
p284
pearly
himmlisch, perlenartig
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ingratiating
schmeichlerisch, schöntuerisch, beliebt machend
p286
gruffly
schroff, grob, barsch
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parleying
verhandelnd
p288
usurp
ergreifen, verdrängen
p290
primrose
Primel, Schlüsselblume
p290
gaily
fröhlich, heiter
p290
Slough
Tümpel, Kruste, Schlammloch, Dreckloch
p290
moribund
todgeweiht, sterbend
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draught
Luftzug, Schluck
p293
verbena
Eisenkraut, Verbena
p294
interminable
endlos, langwierig
p295
puggishly
mopsisch (wie der Hund)
p295
taut
gespannt, straff
p295
sexagenarians
sechzigjährig, Sechziger
p296
flaccid
schlaff, erschlafft, welk, lasch
p296
truculently
aufsässig, trotzig, grob
p297
obstinately
stur
p298
strenuous
anstrengend, strapaziös, unermüdlich
p299
pailful
ein Eimervoll
p299
ordure
Kot, Schmutz
p300
reproach
vorwerfen, tadeln
p301
irresolute
unentschieden, unschlüssig
p304
dolychocephalic
langhälsig
p305
repentance
Reue, Buße, Umkehr
p305
vestibule
Vorraum, Diele, Vorhof
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peremptorily
entschieden, bestimmt
p306
derision
Spott, Hohn, Verhöhnung
p306
squalor
Elend, Vernachlässigung, Dreck, Ärmlichkeit
p307
jostled
angerempelt, rempelte an
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propitiatingly
versöhnend, günstig stimmend
p310
ardour
Begeisterung, Leidenschaft, Inbrunst
p310
mewling
wimmernd, quäkend, maunzend
p313
heap
Haufen, Menge
p314
menacingly
drohend
p316
deprecating
ablehnend, abwehrend
p316
wrath
Zorn, Wut
p316
inquisitiveness
Neugier, Wissbegierde
p318
(with) impunity
Straflosigkeit, straffrei
p319
parenthetically
beiläufig
p322
picturesqueness
Malerhaftigkeit
p322
gesticulating
gestikulierend
p326
morsel
Häppchen, Bissen
p327
chary
vorsichtig, zurückhaltend
p328
scullion
Küchenjunge, Küchenhilfe
p328
illicit
illegal, gesetzwidrig, unerlaubt, verboten
p329
paroxysm
Anfall, Krampf
p331
sedulously
fleißig, eifrig, unermüdlich
p335
avowed
ausgesprochen, bekennend, erklärt
p337
irksomeness
Ärgerlichkeit, Verdrießlichkeit
p337
listlessness
Lustlosigkeit, Teilnahmslosigkeit, Schlappheit
p338
whereupon
woraufhin, worauf, wonach
p342
prizer
Preiskämpfer
p344
chastity
Keuschheit, Reinheit, Unbeflecktheit
p344
neurasthenia
Nervenschwäche, Neurasthenie
p345
allegiance
Loyalität, Treuepflicht
p345
ought
sollte, müsste
p345
reconcile
schlichten, etw. abstimmen
p346
derisive
höhnisch, spöttisch, hämisch
p350
wickedness
Boshaftigkeit, Verruchtheit, Frevel
Quotes
p015: Not philsosphers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
p030: "The lower the caste," said Mr. Foster, "the shorter the oxygen." The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy per cent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs. At less than seventy eyeless monsters. "Who are no use at all," concluded Mr. Foster.
p040: What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
p049: Roses and electric shocks, the khaki of Deltas and a whiff os asfœtida -- wedded indissolubly before the child can speak. But wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculate the more complex courses of behaviour. For that there must be words, but words without reason. In brief, sleep teaching or, hypnopædia.
p053: "strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting."
P053: In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary ☆☆☆☆☆ game. "Charming, charming!" the D.H.C. repeated sentimentally.
p054: "It's just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary ☆☆☆☆☆ play."
p057: His fordship Mustapha Mond
p060: Mustapha Mond leaned forward, shook a finger at them. "Just try to realize it," he said, and his voice sent a strange thrill quivering along their diaphragms. "Try to realize what it was like to have a viviparous mother." That smutty word again. But none of them dreamed, this time, of smiling. "Try to imagine what 'living with one's family' meant." They tried; but obviously without the smallest success. "And do know what a 'home' was?" They shook their heads.
p068: "Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy." - The Controller
p069: "Stability", said the Controller, "stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability." His voice was a trumpet.
p074: "I once had to wait nearly four weeks before a girl I wanted would let me have her."
p076: "Or the Caste System." ... "As though men were more than physico-chemically equal."
p077: "Phosgene, chloropicrin, ethyl iodoacetate, diphenylcyanarsine, trichlormethyl, chloroformate, dichlorethyl sulphide. Not to mention hydrocyanic acid."
p077: $Ch_3C_6H_2(NO_2)3 + HG(CNO)_2$ = well, what? - Trinitrotoluene (T.N.T.) and Mercury Fulminate two explosives
p080: "Then came the famous British Museum Massacre. Two thousand culture fans gassed with dichlorethylsulphide"
p086: "One cubic centimetrecures ten gloomy sentiments", siad the Assistan Predestinator citing a piece of homely hypnopædic wisdom. - on Soma
p092: The liftman was a small simian creature, dressed in the black tunic of an Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moron.
p097: Riemann-surface tennis
p101: A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals - Bernard
p103: In a forcible emphatic way, he was handsome and looked, as his secretary was never tired of repeating, every centimetre an Alpha-Plus. - Helmholtz Watson
p106: A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
p115: It was a night almost without clouds, moonless and starry; but of this on the whole depressing fact Lenina and Henry were fortunately unaware.
p117: Malthusian Blues: refers to the feelings of despair or pessimism stemming from Thomas Malthus's theories
p121: near-wind and superstring: type of intrument
p128: Big Henry had just sung eleven.
p130: old-fashioned -- no television laid on in the bedrooms, no scent organ, only the most putrid synthetic music
p134: tremoloing falsettos: type of singing
p135: "Yes, I know," said Bernard derisively. "'Even Epsilons are useful'! So am I. And damned well wish I weren't!" Lenina was shocked by his blasphemy.
p136: He laughed, "Yes, 'Everybody's happy nowadays.' We begin giving the children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way."
p138: "A little jolt, and they were off."
p139: "Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have today." - Lenina
p145: For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and imprtance.
p147: hot contraceptives: warme Empfängnisverhütungsmittel
p149: brachycephalic Alpha-Minus: kurzköpfiger Aplha Minus
p152: Athapascan ; Nothern american languages
p154: Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed - Bernard after consuming some
p155: "drawn down by whiff of carrion"
p155: "Taos and Tesuque; over Nambe and Picuris and Pojoaque, over Sia and Cochiti, over Laguna and Acoma and the Enchanted Mesa, over Zuñi and Cibola and Ojo Caliente"
p166: Then again the drums; and once more the men's deep savage affirmation of their manhood.
p171: The multitudinous seas incarnadine - from Shakespearse Macbeth
p172: Pookong allusions to Puukon, a Native American war god
p176: Malthusian Drill: act of contraception; see p117 Malthusianism
p177: Stoke Poges, location in Buckinghamshire
p189: Awonawilona
p189: Ahaiyuta and Marsailema, the twins of War and Chance; of Jesus and Pookong; of Mary and Etsanatlehi, the woman who makes herself young again ... and our Lady of Acoma
p193: "The seed of men and all creatures, the seed of the sund and the seed of earth and the seed of the sky -- Awonawilona made them out of the Fog on Increase. Now the world has four wombs; and he laid seeds in the lowest of the lowest of the four wombs. And gradually the seeds began to grow ..."
p194:
Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and makin love Over the nasty sty ...
p194: "kiathla tsilu silokwe silokwe. Kiai silu silu, tsithl" Hemlock of the, Tall kind, tall kind, tall kind, Sprout up hemlock, hemlock, Chit! Chit!"
p200: Antelope Kiva the underground caves in the savage village
p216: "His intellectual eminence carries with it a corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see tha no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual -- and, after all, what is an individual?"
p221: The word (for "father" was not so much obscene as -- with its connotation of something at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of child-bearing -- merely gross, a scatological rather tha a pornographic impropriety)
p227: "... where the music of the radio was a labyrinth of sonorous colours, a sliding, palpitating labyrinth, that led (by what beautifully inevitable windings) to a bright centre of absolute conviction; where the dancing images of the television box were the performers in some indescribably delicious all-singing feely; where the dripping patchouli was more than a scent -- was the sun, was a million sexophones, was Popé making love, only much more so, incomparably more, and without end."
p253: "Ai yaa tákwa!" It was only in Zuñi that the Savage could adequately express what he felt about the Arch-Community-Songster. "Háni!" he added as an after-thought; and then (with what derisive ferocity!): "Sons éso tse-ná."
p262: One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable to inflict upon our enemies.
p273: V.P.S. treatment -- Violent Passion Surrogate
p275: Y.W.F.A.
p283: Impudent strumpet -- schamlose Hure
p293: Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana
p298: The exercise of authority restored her confidence, made her feel better.
p309: nip across to Biarritz in Helmholtz's four-seater sporticopter
p310: The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity
p311: "Ford helps those who help themselves."
p317: Society for the Propagation of Fordian Knowledge
Chapter 16 Lots of good quotes and explanations from Mustapha Mond
p319: "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible. Those plays ,where there's nothing but helicopters flying about them and you feel the people kissing."
p320: You can't make flivvers without steel -- and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stabel now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get.
p322: "But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art. We have the feelis and the scent organ instead."
p322: "It all seems to me so quite horrible" " of course it does. Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability."
p325: "The optimum population," said Mustapha Mond, "is modelled on the iceberg -- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above." "And they're happy below the water line?" "Happier than above it ..."
p326: "The experiment was tried. The whole of Ireland was put on a four-hour day. What was the result? Unrest and a large increase in the consumption of soma." - Mustapha Mond
p341: King Lear: a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in late 1605 or early 1606
p342: Electro-magnetic Golf
p342: Centrifugal Bumble-puppy
p343: Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
p344: "civilization has absolutely no need for nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency."
p345: Christianity without tears -- that's what soma is
p345: Girl of Mátaski
p364: "Kohakwa iyathtokyai"
Locations
p333: Marquesas
p352: Guildford, Godalming, Milford, Witley, Haslemere, Petersfield, Portsmouth, Worplesden, Tongham, Puttenham, Elstead, Grayshott, Selborne, Bordon, Farnham, Hindhead
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