"And no scent, no television, no hot water even.”
- The characters in the story took place with none of the endless, emotionless pleasures of this Utopia, a place with no running perfume, no television
“Apparently, for going walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now proposed.”
- Bernard is odd because he hates crowds and wants to be alone with her even when they aren't making love, he'd rather take a walk in England's beautiful Lake District than fly to Amsterdam and see the women's heavyweight wrestling championship, he wants to look at a stormy sea without listening to sugary music on the radio, but Most of all he's odd cause he is capable of wishing he was free rather than enslaved by his conditioning. In the end he does just what a brave new worldling should do: he leaves the choppy waters of the English channel, flies Lenina home in his helicopter, takes four tablets of soma at a gulp, and goes to bed with her.
“Perhaps he had found her too plump, after all.”
- This cause throw-away irony about Lenina body weight, Huxley makes her shallowness plainer than ever, but she still wants to go with Bernard to America to see the Savage Reservation, something that few people are allowed to do.
"Twenty years, I suppose. Nearer twenty-five. I must have been your age …"
Bernard, for all his desire to be different, is disturbed because the Director is being different: he is talking about something that happened a long time ago, which is very bad manners in this society. Bernard been with the Director 25 years ago.
“Shaking his head, "I actually dream about it sometimes,"
- Bernard still dreams about him searching for Lenina, but never finds her which means that even he has more individual feelings than the system thinks is good for you.
“People simply weren't transferred for things like that. Iceland was just a threat.”
- The Director gives Bernard a threat that he will send him to Iceland.
“Bernard and Lenina slept at Santa Fé.. At this moment, and for no apparent reason, Bernard suddenly remembered that he had left the Eau de Cologne tap in his bathroom wide open and running.. I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland.”
- Bernard and Lenina went to Santa Fé together, he left his Eau de Cologne, and Bernard told Helmholtz that he is going to Iceland.
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