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February 18, 2012
""We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes. But now it's switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness.""
I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …" The Director pushed back the switch. The voice was silent. Only its thin ghost continued to mutter from beneath the eighty pillows. "They'll have that repeated forty or fifty times more before they wake; then again on Thursday, and again on Saturday. A hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty months. After which they go on to a more advanced lesson." --Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : chapter two
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 18, 2012 10:46 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Gammas are not stupid and lazy. They are only poor because Alphas don't like them. I will make a point of liking Gammas...
JWM
Posted by: jwm at February 18, 2012 12:02 PM
Savage boils bursting; blotched skin.
Damn those savages.
Posted by: notquiteunBuckley at February 18, 2012 1:10 PM