Eventually he takes a large dose of soma and has sex with her.

She begged him to take her away from the rushing emptiness of the water after he tells her that the silence makes him feel like an individual. During the return trip he stopped his helicopter and hovers over the channel. He behaves gloomily the entire afternoon and despite leninas arguing refuses to take soma. He feels miserable and isolated and utterly alone and all he can think of is Morgana's ugly eyebrow.Lenina convinces Bernard to attend a wrestling match. Bernard lies and tells her that he found the ceremony wonderful too. The voice continues to croon and coo.Īfter the orgy-porgy, Fifi is in calm rapture. It is dark and warm in the room, and soon the circle breaks, and they fall onto the surrounding couches. They dance around in a circle and chant 'orgy-porgy' in a feverish drumbeat. Feeling only peer pressure, Bernard joins them in their cries, though he feels nothing. A voice sounds Ford, Ford, Ford, again and again, and they feel like they are melting, and that the Greater Being is coming. They sing the third hymn, and the excitement becomes intense. The soma begins to take effect, and even Bernard is affected. Our larger life has but begun.' Chapter 5, Part 2, pg. They pass around and drink from the Loving Cup, which is filled with strawberry ice-cream soma, and they hear the First and Second Solidarity Hymns, the following an excerpt from them: He wishes he'd sat next to Fifi Bradlagh and Joanna Diesel, who are perfect specimens, but instead the lout Tom Kawaguchi takes that coveted seat. Without looking, he has sat down next to Morgana Rothschild, whose unibrow he finds revolting, and Clara Deterdling, whose attractiveness he finds intimidating.

Bernard starts to criticize the people around him, and his stupidity in his choice of seating. The clock sounds out in a bass voice 'Ford, Ford, Ford.'. He takes a taxi to the Fordson Community Singery, a glowing white building. The next day is an alternate Thursday, which is Bernard Marx's Solidarity Service Day, and he is late.

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