Chapter Four Flashcards
“the story about the alcohol having been put into the poor chap’s blood-surrogate”
“sex-hormone chewing gum”
“Seven minutes behind time […] scandalously unpunctual”
“‘What a hideous colour khaki is,’ remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopaedic prejudices of her caste”
“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly”
“she had behaved as any healthy virtuous English girl ought to behave”
“eight centimetres short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in proportion”
“his self-consciousness was acute and distressing”
“The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one”
“The Hourly Radio, an upper caste sheet, the pale-green Gamma Gazette, and, in khaki paper and in words exclusively of one syllable, The Delta Mirror”
“every centimetre an Alpha-Plus”
“a little too able”
“mental excess”
“a feeling that I’ve got something important to say and the power to say it - only I don’t know what it is”
