 | | 09/06/2015 17:21
Sur le blog Fashion For Giants
Literary Stylings # 19: Brave New World
As I mentioned on Sunday, Brave New World , by Aldous Huxley, was my favorite of the books I read last month: I thought it was brilliant, but also terrifying. As Reader Friend Erin put it, it's "eerily plausible." And the fact that it's plausible at all is what makes it terrifying, but also what makes it brilliant. Because, if you haven't read the book, Aldous Huxley writes about a future where human beings are bred in factories for the jobs they're to perform in their lives. Low-level workers (Deltas and Epsilons) are given just enough toxins, such as alcohol, while they're bottled to stunt their growth and impair their brain function so that they'll be...
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