2/12/2023 0 Comments Brave new world book chapt 3![]() ![]() Helmholtz is unfazed when he gets into, uhm, hot water with his fordship, the Resident Controller of Western Europe. Taking caffeine solution, perhaps with crumpets, is still a mark of polite society. The book being set in London, some traditions endure. Liquid air, television, vibro-vacuum massage, radio, boiling caffeine solution, hot contraceptives, and eight different kinds of scent were laid on in every bedroom. The hotel was excellent - incomparably better, for example, than that horrible Aurora Bora Palace in which Lenina had suffered so much the previous summer. Fine hotels give guests what they want - caffeine solution, amongst other luxuries: I actually wonder if Huxley made an error in this lone mention of coffee - elsewhere in the book, characters drink “caffeine solution.” That seems more in tune with the Brave New World, where every desire is instantly gratified. ![]() ![]() Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 5, Part 1 There, in a loud and cheerful company, they ate an excellent meal. Landing on the roof of Henry’s forty-story apartment house in Westminster, they went straight down to the dining-hall. Coffee only appears once in Brave New World, and even then it’s used to wash down soma, a happy-pill drug the characters constantly take. But in the year 632 AF (After Ford - and yes, that’s Henry Ford), they’re still drinking coffee. Aging, career quandaries, and unrequited love - unrequited anything, really, as well as any form of love - are absent in the Brave New World. ![]() Deep down inside, do each of us really yearn for some conflict, struggle, and sadness in our lives? What would be lost if we were to become permanently happy? This is what Aldous Huxley explores in Brave New World, the fifth-best novel of the 20th century if you’re inclined to believe the Modern Library editorial board.Ĭan permanent happiness be achieved without coffee? It seems implausible, and Huxley apparently agrees. ![]()
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