2020-08-11 Brave New World

The forward by Christopher Hitchens reminded me how much I enjoyed his teases about history and people you should know or know better and don't. This time on the 30 years war to whose horrors we owe the modern norm of tolerance.

Characters

Henry Foster - lab tech growing test tube babies

Lenina Crowne - another pretty tech inoculating gilled foetuses at meter 150

Polly Trotsky - young girl snubbed by young boy during erotic play

Mustapha Mound - his fordship, the Resident Comptroller for Western Europe

Fanny Crowne - Lenina's locker mate

Bernard Marx - loner, Lenina's new partner

Benito Hoover - sunny, rival to Bernard

Helmhotz Watson - too above average Alpha