![]() ![]() Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it.” (Ch 1) “Hasn’t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?” (Ch 1) Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.” (Ch 1) “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) Sure, John might be talking more about the principle of how things should be, but given that we don't live in a brave new world (which is too bad because the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre sounds great), people might not take kindly to your presumptuous need for self-actualization when they're struggling for a bite to eat.“Essentially, bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development. Yeah, this one isn't entirely respectful to those who aren't fortunate enough to have comfort: people who are forced to constantly live in threatening places or situations. If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10. In any case, this quote is all about wanting the freedom to make your own decisions-regardless of the consequences. We're betting you've seen it on the blog of an iconoclast-or out of the mouth of the rebel kid in your local cafeteria. But John, finally fed up with all of Mond's talk of being comfortable, bursts out with this quote-a cry for individuality and nonconformity if we've ever seen one. They then begin discussing God and religion as Mond tries to explain to John the advantages of the brave new world. Mond talks to all of them before dismissing the two citizens and keeping the Savage. After John incites a riot at the hospital by throwing out the workers' soma (basically a government-sponsored drug), he, Bernard, and Hemlholtz are brought before the mysterious and powerful Controller, Mustapha Mond. In Aldous Huxley's famous novel, the characters are all having a bit of a crisis. It's a Brave New World, Shmoopers, and we're just living in it. ![]()
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