Chapter Six: Part 3-

1. Lenina and Bernard fly to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The hotel room is awesome, since it has television,
liquid air, and "hot contraceptives." Lenina says that "progress is lovely." Bernard responds that this is
a phrase repeated 500 times a week between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. All in all, a typical
exchange between the two.

2. Bernard warns her that there aren't going to be any luxuries on the Reservation, so she'd better prepare
herself for it. So, the next morning the pair presents their permit card to the Reservation Warden, an
Alpha-Minus. He proceeds to pelt them with useless facts about the Reservation.

3. Meanwhile, Bernard remembers that he left the tap in the bathroom running; not the water tap, but the
Eau de Cologne tap. Shoot, he thinks, this will cost a fortune. Lenina, who has taken half a gram of
soma, has no idea what the Warden is talking about (shes happily high) as he describes the voltage of
the electric fence around the reservation. But she "oohs" and "ahhs" anyway.

4. The Warden makes it clear that, with this electric fence, no one can "escape" from the Reservation.
Bernard tries to hurry everything up (so he can go shut the tap off), but the Warden holds him back while
lecturing of the Reservation's horrors (people are still born there, for example Eww!!!).

5. Basically, the world of the Reservation which the Warden describes is much like ours in 2017...
scientifically.

6. Bernard finally gets to a phone and calls Helmholtz to have him turn off the tap. Helmholtz then reveals
that the Director is looking for someone to take Bernard's place. In other words, Iceland is waiting for
Bernard.

7. Bernard is stunned. He had once hoped for some great pain to afflict him so that he could feel what it
was like to face it without soma. But now that such a persecution has come to him, he sees that he has no
courage to face it after all. He desperately regrets angering the Director.
 8. Lenina finally convinces him to take four tablets of soma, which is a lot. (Half a gram, or one tablet, will
get you high.) Then she and Bernard get into a plane and cross over the border, into the Reservation.
They pass by the aforementioned electric fence, surrounded by the bones of animals that "never learn"
from seeing others electrocuted.

9. Bernard laughs at this. Because it's funny? No, because he's taken four soma tablets. Then he promptly
falls asleep again, not because he's tired, but because, well, you get the point. He sleeps through most of
the air tour and wakes up when they land. Bernard and Lenina are dropped at the "rest-house" inside the
Reservation and they are reassured the savages won't do them any harm (because the savages are used to
getting GAS BOMBED if they do anything bad).

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10. Lenina and Bernard are left at Malpais. Lenina is being whiny she doesn't like it here, and she doesn't like their
Indian guide (mostly because he doesn't smell good).

11. The guide leads them, amidst the sound of beating drums, to the bottom of a 300 foot canyon.

12. Lenina doesn't like this, either, because it makes her feel small.

13. Following behind the guide, she and Bernard proceed to climb upwards, finally emerging on a flat deck of stone
at the top. Two little Indians come running along, naked and painted, which totally freaks out Lenina. They're also
carrying snakes, which doesn't help her comfort level.

14. When they get to the pueblo, the guide leaves to go in and ask for directions. She can't deal with the general
dirtiness, since "cleanliness is next to fordliness."
15. Bernard reminds her that these people haven't heard of Our Ford - that they are used to living this way.

16. The two of them observe an old man climbing down a ladder. Lenina is horrified: she's never seen such an old
man before. Bernard explains that they (in the controlled world) have learned to keep people "young" until they're
about sixty, at which point they die. So, they don't have such thing as old age.

17. Lenina has had enough. She goes for her soma, only to realize she left it behind.

18. But Bernard has no difficulty at all. In fact, he makes a point of commenting on all the savage goings-on, like
breast-feeding and combing for lice. Basically, it's his way of proving that he's a big tough man.

19. Lenina finds a substitute for drugs: pounding drums. She tries to lose herself in the music with a good ol' round of
"orgy-porgy."

20. Alas, this doesn't last for long the drumming quickly turns into a ritualistic, ceremonial dance. The "savages"
are dancing and screaming "as though they were being killed," which we think (not-coincidentally) reminds us of
the earlier orgy-porgy scene from the other world.

21. The leader of the dancers starts tossing the snakes about the room. A crucifix is brought out along with a boy of
eighteen, naked except for a white cloth (strategically placed, we expect). He makes the sign of the cross and
begins to circle around a pile of snakes. As he walks, a man with a coyote mask whips him. He just keeps
walking.

22. Lenina can't take it she's all tears and and she says "Oh, no, stop!" The boy collapses. An old man touches a
white feather to the boy's bloody body, which not surprisingly turns red. He shakes it over the pile of snakes,
dropping the blood onto the writhing creatures.
23. The dancers all pick up the snakes and run away, leaving behind the collapsed, bloody boy on the floor. Three
women pick him up and carry him away, hopefully for medical treatment and not more lashings.

24. Bernard & Lenina are left alone (Lenina: Sob, it's so terrible, sob!) until a young man, white but wearing Indian
dress, joins them and asks them if they're civilized- if they come from outside the Reservation.

25. Bernard is shocked; the savages don't generally know about the outside world.

26. The young man points to the blood on the floor & says "See that damned spot?" - a Shakespeare quote. Lenina
responds with a useless hypnopaedic rhyme. A Gramme is better than a damn . Typical Lenina.

27. The young man says he himself should have been the sacrifice (he should have been the one whipped). He would
have put up with more whipping. He would have been more of a man. But he says they never give him the chance
to do fun stuff like that because he's white (not dark-skinned like the other Indians).

28. Meanwhile, the young man hasn't yet looked at Lenina. When he does, he falls in love!

29. He averts his eyes again from the beauty that is Lenina. Meanwhile, he explains to them both that his mother,
Linda, came from the Other Place (meaning off the Reservation) before he was born.

30. Bernard starts paying close attention as you should. The savage reveals that his father's name is Tomakin. The
book tells you that the DHCs name is Tomas, in case you had trouble putting two and two together. That is, the
Director is this guy's father; Linda is the woman who "got lost" in the savage Reservation. Got it?
 31. So, this white savage takes them to his home and tells Linda to come out. She is old & "very stout" (fat) &
wearing tattered clothes, which disgusts Lenina, our favorite material girl.

32. Linda practically throws herself on Lenina. Apparently she, too, is a material girl (it's tough to get rid of years and
years of brainwashing hypnopaedia). She's all about Lenina's clothes, appearance, etc. Living in the Savage world
has done nothing to ground her in reality or add any depth to her character. Sad.

33. Then we get some of Linda's background, which is also sad. She came into the Reservation operating under the
rules of the "civilized" world, chief among them, "Everybody belongs to every one else." She then became,
essentially, the village prostitute.

34. Naturally, all the wives of the men sleeping with Linda got upset, went over to Linda's and yelled at her.

35. Her son, John the savage, used to get upset at the fact that his Mom was sleeping around so much. She didn't
understand his anger. She has tried to condition her son a little, but she hasnt been able to do much.

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36. While Lenina and Linda bond with each other inside, Bernard and John are outside talking.

37. Bernard is having a hard time dealing with the reality of the Reservation. It baffles him that there could
be two such worlds in coexistence. He asks John to tell him his whole story, from the very beginning.
John launches into his life story:

38. Little John is lying down in bed with his mom, and she's singing him to sleep. When he wakes up, a man
is trying to sleep with his mom. Linda says, "Not with John here," so the man forcibly removes John,
locking him in a different room of the house while he has sex with Linda

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39. He also remembers a dark room with women making blankets. He remembers Linda telling him to play
with the other children and her being angry at the people for being such savages.

40. There's also a man named Pop who brings mescal (it's like tequila) over to the house and has lots of sex
with Linda. Shortly thereafter, Linda is whipped (literally whipped) by the women in the town because
she is sleeping with all their men. When John tries to stop them, he is whipped, too. When he tries to
comfort his mother later, she hits him because she resents being his mother. In other words, his life sucks
completely, it isn't his fault, and there's nothing he can do about it. Fortunately, Linda's maternal instinct
kicks in and she starts doing mother things, like actually comforting her son (Until he gets lice.)

41. Mostly, John remembers her telling him all about the "Other Place," (i.e., the world outside of the
Reservation), where everything is clean and you can fly whenever you want and you basically have
happiness on tap, along with synthetic music, perfumes, and of course narcotics (soma).

42. But when he isn't hearing these stories from Linda, John is hearing other, very different stories from the
children of the Reservation. They talk about their legends and their mythology of Jesus and Heaven. Of
course, the two worlds get all mixed up in his mind.

43. Linda continues to be a harlot by the standards of the Reservation, and everyone continues to taunt her
for it. Yet she somehow finds the time to teach John to read. Unfortunately, the only book she has for
him to read is a pamphlet from her old job as a nurse in the World State titled The Chemical and
Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo. Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers.

44. The boys always make fun of him because Linda doesn't know how to mend clothes; but John has one
thing above them: he can read. He doesn't really know what the book is talking about, but still.

45. Linda isn't a great help, since she can't tell him anything about chemicals (the topic of the book) as she
only worked with embryos. The men of the Pueblo have answers to everything, though, concerning the
sky and the earth and seeds and a God named Awonawilona.
46. And then, when he is about twelve, John received a book from Pop, which Pope found hidden away in
an old trunk titled The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. He opened it and read a passage
(which we know to be from Hamlet, though the title isn't mentioned) that said Nay, but to live
In the rank sweat of an enseamd bed, Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love
Over the nasty sty!

47. Basically that means to lie in a sweaty bed with someone and to do dirty things to them.

48. Despite the subject matter, John sees that the words are beautiful, so much so "that he cried."

49. He compares it to the magic chants of the men in the Reservation, but this is even better because it
speaks to him. He even recognizes that, somehow, these words are about Linda and Pop.

50. So of course over the years John comes to hate Pop more and more. He compares him to other
Shakespeare characters that he read about like Iago, the terrible villain of Othello. He then makes
himself into Prince Hamlet and Pop into the murderous King Claudius, declaring he will kill him while
he lies in bed. And then, one day, he indeed tries to kill Pop, stabbing him with a knife while Pop is
sleeping in bed with Linda.

51. Of course, Linda flips out, more because of the blood than anything else. But Pop, who despite
suffering a stab wound or two seems to be just fine, calls John "brave" and sends him on his way without
so much as a whack.

52. Then [we're still in John's story to Bernard, by the way] one day when John was fifteen, an old man
named Mitsima taught him how to make things out of clay. He formed a fast friendship with this man,
who taught him more valuable, life-saving skills.

53. Next, John recalls a local wedding, which Linda finds to be unnecessary. John, on the other hand, finds
it to be upsetting, since he was evidently in love with the bride and wanted to one day marry her himself.
54. Then, when he was sixteen, John tried to take part in a coming-of-age ritual with the rest of the young
men of the village. But the leaders won't let him, partly because he's white, partly because he's an
outsider, partly because his mother is a loose woman.

55. After being refused, John heads outside and ponders on thoughts related to his three new discoveries:
Time, Death, and God. He also quotes Macbeth ("To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow"), which is
awesome.

56. OK, enough storytelling. John ends his tale by saying that he is "alone, always alone," and Bernard
basically says, "OMG! Me too!"

57. Both men agree that it doesn't matter which world you're in (the "civilized" or the "savage"), if you're
different, you're going to be alone.

58. John says that when he wasn't allowed to take part in rituals, he would go through the motions by
himself. Once he stood against a rock with his arms outstretched "like Jesus on the cross" to suffer in
the hot sun. Why? Because he thought he should. If he was unhappy for having done something wrong,
this was his way of dealing with it.

59. Bernard recognizes that, in his world, the way of dealing with it is to take soma, but he thinks John's
way is better.

60. John shows him a scar on his forehead that he received when, particularly exhausted from pretending to
be Jesus, he fell over.

61. Bernard doesn't feel pity but rather disgust when he looks at the scar of John's wound. Basically, the text
says, conditioning has made him squeamish.
 62. He then asks John to come back to London with him. (Which is NOT allowed.)

63. John is giddy as a puppy, and wants Linda to come, too. Bernard is less comfortable with this, since
Linda is old and overweight and repulsive to him, but he decides he can actually use all that to his
advantage.

64. John, calmed down a bit, asks Bernard if he remembers "what Miranda says."

65. Bernard doesn't even know who Miranda is, so John just proceeds to quote from Shakespeare's The
Tempest, where there is a character named Miranda who said, "O wonder! How many goodly creatures
are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in it!"

66. Before he can get really excited, John wants to know if Bernard is married to Lenina. When he hears
"no," he goes back to being happy really REALLY happy.

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67. When they return to their hotel room, Lenina takes three grams of soma and peaces out for about
eighteen hours.

68. Bernard, on the other hand, stays up to hatch a plot to get John and Linda back to London. The next
morning, he leaves Lenina (still on her "soma holiday") and flies back to Malpais.

69. Once there, he gets on the phone and goes through secretary after secretary before getting ahold of
Mustapha Mond, World Controller. Bernard convinces him that this is a matter of "scientific interest," to
bring John and Linda back so Mustapha agrees to let him bring John and Linda back to London.
70. Next, Bernard talks to the Warden and makes a big deal out of pretending he's a pal of Mustapha, that
they talk all the time, no big deal, because he (Bernard) is so important.

71. Meanwhile, while Bernard is running around, John is standing outside the rest house and wondering
why no one is there. He thinks he's been let down by Bernard.

72. So John breaks in. He rummages through Lenina's luggage, gets all crazy at the smell of her perfume, is
endlessly fascinated by the zippers on her clothing, and finally sees the woman herself, asleep on the bed
in a pink onesey. (Yes, a pink onesey like a sleeping suit that babies wear)

73. John kneels beside her and murmurs over her beauty. He quotes first from a Shakespeare poem titled
Troilus and Cressida, and then from Romeo and Juliet. He compares her to the beautiful (yet tragic)
Juliet.

74. He briefly contemplates unzipping her onesey (her child-like pajamas) but then chides himself for such
an immodest thought. Then, before he knows it, he hears the sound (actually the BUZZ) of a helicopter
outside, which means Bernard is back. John hightails it out of there.