Brave New World

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   The languages differ markedly in these descriptions. Take the first line of Chapter 7 as an example: "The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-colored dust." The images are all physical and archaic. This description could have been written any time in the past—anywhere that knew ships and had heard of lions. After that, the physical geometry of the Savage Reservation is emphasized; Huxley writes of pyramids, "a criss-cross of walls," and columns. This is a primal, physical place (via the language), and the paragraphs are relatively staid and established. By contrast, the World State is hyperactive. The prose comes in bursts, and is repetitive. It includes words and phrases that are new, and that would relate only to this time.

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