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