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Haircognition.
Zero bunnage.
Brave Old Drink.
Among the classical stimulants, tea, coffee and maté are, thank goodness, almost completely harmless.
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited
Lieblingsplanerin.
(...) to avoid the spiritual impoverishment of individuals and whole societies, leave the metropolis and revive the small country community, or alternatively humanize the metropolis by creating within its network of mechanical organization the urban equivalents of small country communities, in which individuals can meet and co-operate as complete persons, not as the mere embodiments of specialized functions.
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited
Daily Bads.
Fifty years ago, when I was a boy, it seemed completely self-evident that the bad old days were over, that torture and massacre, slavery, and the persecution of heretics, were things of the past. Among people who wore top hats, traveled in trains, and took a bath every morning such horrors were simply out of the question. After all, we were living in the twentieth century. A few years later these people who took daily baths and went to church in top hats were committing atrocities on a scale undreamed of by the benighted Africans and Asiatics. In the light of recent history it would be foolish to suppose that this sort of thing cannot happen again. It can and, no doubt, it will.
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited