-could see the pueblo
Malpais
-tall houses stepped and
amputated like pyramids
-Lenina described it as
"Queer"
-she doesn't like the man
-drums being beaten in
Malpais
-wish they could have
brought the plane
-Lenina compared the top
of the mesa that was a flat deck of stone to "Like the Charing-T
Tower"
-the Indians were naked
and could be heard because of their heavy jewelry
-they tried to avoid
Lenina's presence
-at the entrance of
pueblo, Lenina held her handkerchief over her nose
-she was amazed at the
horrible conditions they lived in
-Bernard didn't make the
situation into a big deal, but merely said "they've been doing it for the
last five or six thousand years. So I suppose they must be used to it by
now."
-they disagreed on how the
Indians lived
-Bernard tried to be
"unmoved" about the situation
-repetition "We
preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially
balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium
ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young
blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated."
-Bernard calls them
creatures
-Lenina feels emotions and
goes for the soma but finds that its been left behind at the rest-house
-Bernard talks to Lenina
after seeing a mother breast their child "And what an intensity of feeling
it must generate! I often think one may have missed something in not having had
a mother. And per-haps you've missed something in not being a mother, Lenina.
Imagine yourself sitting there with a little baby of your own. …"
-setting: "A dead dog
was lying on a rubbish heap; a woman with a goitre was looking for lice in the
hair of a small girl."
-they come across a
village square and they notice underground chambers
-the drums reminded Lenina
of "the synthetic noises made at Solidarity Services and Ford's Day
celebrations." .
"Orgy-porgy,"
-the Indian performance
reminded Lenina of “a lower-caste Community Sing”
-they danced and sang a
song then the leader of the dancers threw snakes at everyone to catch
-there was a lot of
movement within the group and the dance
-Lenina covered her face
and started to cry asking the people to stop what they were doing
-She kept crying wishing
she had her soma
-a boy talked with them
and they were amazed to hear what he had to say "I ought to have been
there," the young man went on. "Why wouldn't they let me be the
sacrifice? I'd have gone round ten times–twelve, fifteen. Palowhtiwa only got
as far as seven. They could have had twice as much blood from me. The
multitudinous seas incarnadine."
-he
wished he could have been hit by the whip "to show that I'm a man”-Lenina thinks he was a "nice-looking boy" and began to smile at him
-Linda was his mother
-she had she had came from the"Other Place long ago"
-She got hurt while walking alone and was left behind by Tomakin as he went back to the Other Place
-"(Yes, "Thomas" was the D.H.C.'s first name.)"
-hunters from Malpais found her and the boy was born in Malpais
-they meet Linda and she's in horrible conditions
-Linda starts to cry and is happy to see a "civilized face"
-she said she had to suffer without soma
-Linda was a Beta having a baby and ashamed of it
-she said she didn't know how it happened and that she took all precautions
-she begins to reminisce on old memories
-things are different there bcuz everyone belongs to one person
-Linda talk about being rushed after women found out that their men kept going to her
-she mentions John and how jealous he was
-John was overprotective and couldn't understand why Linda had to be with so many people
-he tried to kill someone at one point
-Linda said it was hard to answer questions because she was just a Beta that worked in the Fertilizing room
-it ends with asking "What are you to answer?"
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