Chapter 16 notes BNW

The police leave Bernard, Helmholtz, and John in Mond’s office.

John admits that he does like some things, such as the constant sound of music. 

Mond responds with a quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest: “Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about my ears and sometimes voices.” 

the World State is a technotopia, meaning that it is made possible by technologies vastly more advanced than our own

Science has also had to be suppressed to create the happy and stable society.

Mond says that Bernard does not know that exile is actually a reward. 

BNW chapter 9 notes

- Lenina takes three grams of soma and peaces out for about eighteen hours.
- Bernard stays up to  plan on how to get John and Linda back to London
- Bernard convinces Mustapha agrees to let him bring John and Linda back to London.
- John is standing outside the rest house and wondering why no one is there. He thinks he's been let down by Bernard.
- John kneels beside her and murmurs over her beauty. He quotes first from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and then from Romeo and Juliet.
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