Word: lenina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Someone put alcohol in Bernard Marx's blood surrogate while he was still in his bottle, and Bernard turned out a misfit. He took his Lenina to the feelies and to color organ concerts, danced with her to "Bottle songs" ("Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted . . ."), but he objected to sharing her with others. For that he was banished to Iceland. "Mr. Savage" was b --n on an Indian reservation of a real m ----r, and he too fell in love...
...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...