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with Lenina, fled from her like St. Cimeon Stylites from Thais. His Fordship Mustapha Mond granted him an old lighthouse where he could live in savagery, but television reporters hunted him out, Lenina returned to torture him and the flesh got him in the end. Early morning reporters found him dangling in his lighthouse. "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, northeast, east, southeast, south, south-southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary's Neckers | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

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