10.01.2016

"I cannot live without books"



ALDOUS HUXLEY, Brave New World (1932),

p.183 :

"Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

That's why I have te keep these books locked up in the safe.

They're smut. People would be shocked if ..."

p.50 :

"Accompanied by a campaign against the Past;

by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments 

(luckily most of them had 

already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War);

by the suppression of all books published before A.F.150".

p.93 :

"The spectacle of two young women

 giving the breast to their babies

made her blush and turn away her face.

She had never seen anything so indecent in her life".