Brave New World (II & III)

CHAPTER 2:

• going into the Infant Nurseries
• nurses are setting out bowls of roses and books in a row on the floor 
• c.2/p.19: fantastic rose petal descriptions (metaphors/similes)
• a group of Delta-caste babies brought in, put on floor
• when the babies approach the roses and books: loud noises, alarm sounds, floor is elecrtrified
• they are trained to despise nature, country--keep up productivity in factories
• the director has to explain the concept of "parents" to the students
• rather touchy subject; "smut" or "pure science"?
• "hypnopaedia": sleep-teaching
• Henry Ford seems to be a god to them
• p.25: "Our Ford's first T-Model was put on the market"
• Ford/Lord...I see what you did there
• p.27: indoctrinating Beta children via hypnopaedia--"Elementary Class Consciousness"
• disgust with lower castes but also admiration of Alphas
• Just thought I'd share dictionary.com's word of the day: zephyrean: full of or containing light breezes. Isn't that nice? I thought it was nice. Maybe it's the fever.

CHAPTER 3:

•  playtime in the garden: several hundred young children play naked outside
• play a game of Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy 
•  c.3/p.31: erotic play among children normal and encouraged 
• p.33: enter Controller Mustapha Mond
• "his fordship"
•  p.34: "History is bunk"
• "viviparous mother": smutty!
• they can't even imagine "living with one's own family" or "home"
• plot divides between a conversation in the locker room (Lenina and Fanny) and the Controller and the students
• p.40: "everyone belongs to everyone else"
• Lenina and Bernard Marx seem to have feelings for one another
• structure change
• short phrases, single sentences/fragments