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CH 5 BRAVE NEW WORLD SUMMARY SERIES

“Reducing the number of revolutions per minute…the surrogate goes round slower therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future Directors of Hatcheries.” (Ch 1) Result: they’re decanted as freemartins - structurally quite normal (except that they do have the slightest tendency to grow beards) out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into the much more interesting world of human invention.” (Ch 1) The others get a does of male sex-hormone every twenty-four metros for the rest of the course. So we allow as many as thirty per cent of the female embryos to develop normally. And of course one must always have an enormous margin of safety. One fertile ovary in twelve hundred - that would really be quite sufficient for our purposes. “For of course, in the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely a nuisance. You should see the way a negro ovary responds to pituitary! It’s quite astonishing, when you’re used to working with European material…Still, we mean to beat them if we can.” (Ch 1) Singapore has often produced over sixteen thousand five hundred and Mombasa has actually touched the seventeen thousand mark. But of course they’ve done much better in some of the tropical Centres. “Sixteen thousand and twelve in this Centre…Sixteen thousand and twelve in one hundred and eighty-nine batches of identicals. “And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals.” (Ch 1) For the first time in history…Community, Identity, Stability…If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.” (Ch 1) “Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!…You really know where you are. “Can’t you see? Can’t you see?…Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!” (Ch 1) We check the normal growth and, paradoxically enough, the egg responds by budding.” (Ch 1)

CH 5 BRAVE NEW WORLD SUMMARY SERIES

We end the chapter with Lenina asking Henry, on Fanny's behalf, where he bought the lovely belt of contraceptives he gave her.“Essentially, bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development.

She only does so because she's been conditioned this way since youth, so it isn't so much a decision as a forced habit.

Still, although she's high, Lenina remembers to use contraception when she and Henry have sex.

They take some more soma, which the text claims renders them "bottled" (meaning they are just as good as inside a bottle when they're high).

They might as well be two twin embryos stuck in a bottle, the text says.

Henry and Lenina are having a grand old time, which very likely has something to do with the fact that they're very high on the soma they just took.

Their song is (ostensibly) called "Little Bottle of Mine," and expressed a desire to have, we guess, never left the bottle of sterile, pre-natal growth.

The music is, of course, sexually charged, as the musicians play as though experiencing "the little death" (an orgasm).

They then walk through Westminster Abbey to partake in such lively nighttime entertainments as "Calvin Stopes and His Sixteen Sexophonists."

At Henry's apartment building, he and Lenina eat dinner, drink coffee, and take several soma tablets.

Marvelous, Lenina thinks, which is cute, until you remember that the rush of fumes was caused by the remains of a dead person.

They pass over the crematorium and are shot up into the air by a rush of fumes coming from a smokestack.

She concludes that she's glad she's not an Epsilon, but Henry reminds her that, if she were, she'd be happy about it.

She was scared by it at first, but the soothing noise quickly put her back to sleep.

Once, when she was young, she woke up in the middle of the night and heard a strange voice whispering the hypnopaedic lessons over and over in the darkness.

This triggers a strange memory of Lenina's.

Foster reminds Lenina that all men are equal physio-chemically, so even Epsilons are useful.

Apparently, adult corpses are burned without ritual, and phosphorus is recovered from burnt remains to help make plants grow.

Below them we see the "Internal and External Secretions Factory," the "Lower Caste barracks," and the "Slough Crematorium." Darkness falls around 8pm, so Lenina and Henry finish their game of golf and get back into the helicopter.