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2020-08-11 Brave New World

The forward by Christopher Hitchens reminded me how much I enjoyed his teases about history and people you should know or know better and don't. This time on the 30 years war to whose horrors we owe the modern norm of tolerance.

Characters

Henry Foster - lab tech growing test tube babies
Lenina Crowne - another pretty tech inoculating gilled foetuses at meter 150
Polly Trotsky - young girl snubbed by young boy during erotic play
Mustapha Mound - his fordship, the Resident Comptroller for Western Europe
Fanny Crowne - Lenina's locker mate
Bernard Marx - loner, Lenina's new partner
Benito Hoover - sunny, rival to Bernard
Helmhotz Watson - too above average Alpha