“The dirt, to start with, the piles of rubbish, the dust, the dogs, the flies. Her face wrinkled up into a grimace of disgust. She held her handkerchief to her nose.”
The Indian guide started to smell. The Reservation is dirty, full of rubbish, dust, dogs, and flies. An old man shows what aging does to the human body when it isn't protected by conditioning and chemicals; he is toothless, wrinkled, thin, bent.
“She felt in her pocket for her soma–only to discover that.. It reminded her.. Solidarity Services and Ford's Day celebrations. "Orgy-porgy," she whispered.. There emerged from the one a painted image of an eagle, from the other that of a man, naked, and nailed to a cross..”
Lenina has left her soma. She discovers that the Indians do a dance which reminded her of a solidarity service and orgy-porgy. she sees people dancing with a man nailed to a cross. She can't understand the sense of community that runs through that kind of religion.
“The dress of the young man who now stepped out on to the terrace was Indian; but his plaited hair was straw-coloured, his eyes a pale blue, and his skin a white skin, bronzed.. said the stranger, in faultless but peculiar English.”
A man who will become the greatest threat to their world's stability and he steps into their rest-house and they see that, though raised an Indian, he has blond hair and white skin, and they hear that he speaks "faultless but peculiar English."
“You come from the Other Place.. Mad, mad and cruel. And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill.. She had gone walking alone in those mountains over there to the North, had fallen down a steep place and hurt her head.. Some hunters from Malpais had found her and brought her to the pueblo.”
A man who will become the greatest threat to their world's stability and he steps into their rest-house and they see that, though raised an Indian, he has blond hair and white skin, and they hear that he speaks "faultless but peculiar English."
“You come from the Other Place.. Mad, mad and cruel. And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill.. She had gone walking alone in those mountains over there to the North, had fallen down a steep place and hurt her head.. Some hunters from Malpais had found her and brought her to the pueblo.”
Bernard realize he’s the son of the Director and the woman whom the Director had brought to the Reservation calls the "Other Place.”. The woman had not died. She had arrived pregnant with the Director's child by an accident, a defect in a Malthusian belt. During her visit she had fallen and hurt her head, but she survived to give birth, and she had reached middle age. Her son had grown up in the pueblo.
“Linda and he–Linda was his mother (the word made Lenina look uncomfortable).”
The young man takes them to the little house where he lives with his mother, Linda. Lenina can barely stand to look at her, fat, sick, and stinking of alcohol. She learned from her conditioning. She pours out what she remembers in a confused burst of woe.
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