Brave New World Chapters 9-11

What does Lenina feel entitled to and why?

A complete and absolute holiday because of the day of queerness and horror

How much soma does Lenina take after getting back to the rest house?

6 half-gramme tablets

How long does it take Lenina to embark for lunar eternity?

10 minutes

How long is Lenina high for (how much time until she is in time again)?

18 hours

When does Bernard fall asleep?

After midnight

Why is Bernard’s insomnia not fruitless?

He has a plan

When does the octoroon step out of his helicopter?

ten o’clock

Where is Bernard waiting for the octoroon?

Among the agaves

What time does Bernard say Lenina won’t be back from her soma holiday until and how much time does he and the octoroon have?

Five (they have seven hours)

When do Bernard and the octoroon land on the roof of the Santa Fe Post Office?

10:34

When does Bernard get through to the World Controller’s Office in Whitehall?

10:37

When does Bernard speak to his fordship’s fourth personal secretary?

10:39

At what time does Bernard repeat his story to the first secretary?

10:44

At what time does Bernard talk to Mustapha Mond?

10:47 and a half

Where does Bernard go after talking to Mustapha Mond in order to get a special permit that will allow him to take Linda and John to London?

The Warden’s Office

At what time is Bernard shaking hands with the Warden?

10:54

What does Bernard’s bored tone imply when talking to the Warden?

That he speaks to Mustapha Mond every day of the week

At what time does Bernard have all the necessary papers in his pocket?

11:03

What does Bernard say patronizingly to the Warden?

So long

Where does Bernard go after talking to the Warden?

The hotel

How long does Bernard look in on the televisor?

Half an hour

At what time does Bernard fly back with the octoroon to Malpais?

Half past 2

How long does it take John to decide to look through the window?

Half an hour

What is the first thing John sees when he looks through the window?

A green suit-case with the initials L.C. painted on the lid

How does John get into the rest house?

He smashes the window with a stone

What does John breathe in when he opens the suitcase?

Lenina’s perfume

What is a puzzle to John?

The zippers on Lenina’s spare pair of viscose velveteen shorts

What are the most beautiful things John has ever seen?

Lenina’s green slippers

What makes John blush?

A pair of Lenina’s zippicamiknicks

What does John kiss from Lenina’s suitcase?

A perfumed acetate handkerchief

What does John spill on himself?

Lenina’s scented powder

What does John wipe the scented powder on?

His chest, his shoulders, and his bare arms

How many doors inside the rest house does John open in order to get to Lenina?

2

What does Lenina wear while she sleeps?

A pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas

What color are Lenina’s toes?

Pink

Why do tears come to John’s eyes?

Lenina looks so touchingly childish and trustful when she sleeps

What would have to happen in order to call Lenina back from her soma-holiday before the appointed time?

A pistol shot

What does John do because Lenina is fast asleep?

He enters her room, kneels on the floor beside the bed, and looks at her

What does John murmur when he kneels next to Lenina?

Her eyes

Her eyes, her hair…

her cheek, her gait, her voice

What bug flies around John?

A fly

What animal does John compare Lenina to when he is about to pet her?

A shy and possibly rather dangerous bird

What does John think about doing that disgusts him?

Pulling down Lenina’s zipper

What is the buzzing John hears?

Bernard’s helicopter

How many electric clocks does the Bloomsbury Centre have?

4,000

What time do the clocks in the Bloomsbury Centre mark (what time is the Bloomsbury Centre in the full buzz of work)?

Twenty seven minutes past two

What does the Director call the Bloomsbury Centre?

This hive of industry

What happens under the microscopes?

Spermatozoa are burrowing head first into eggs and the fertilized eggs are expanding, dividing, or budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos if they are bokanovskified

Where do the escalators go to from the Social Predestination Room?

The basement

What happens in the basement?

The fetuses grow and grow or languished into a stunted Epsilonhood if they are poisoned

What helps the fetuses grow?

They are on a cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones

How many floors of Nurseries are there?

11

What time is it in the Nursery?

Feeding time

How many infants are simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion?

18 hundred

How many layers of dormitory are there?

10

What are the little boys and girls doing during their afternoon sleep?

Listening to lessons in hygiene and sociability, in class-consciousness, and the toddler’s love life

What are the children in the playrooms doing?

Amusing themselves with bricks and clay modelling, hunt-the-zipper, and erotic play

How many older children are in the playrooms?

900

Why are the children in the playrooms?

Because it is raining

What are the workers in the Bloomsbury Centre doing while they are working?

They young girls are singing over their test-tubes, the Predestinators are whistling, and the workers in the Decanting Room are cracking jokes

Where does the Director enter with Henry Foster?

The Fertilizing Room

What is the Director’s expression when he enters the room with Henry Foster?

Grave, wooden with severity

Which room contains more high-caste workers than any other in the Centre?

The Fertilizing Room

At what time does the Director request Bernard meet him at?

Half past two

What does Henry say about Bernard with hypocritical generosity?

He does his work very well

The greater a man’s talents…

the greater his power to lead astray

It is better that one should suffer…

than that many should be corrupted

What is the most heinous offence, even worse than murder (which kills only the individual)?

Unorthodoxy of behaviour

Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual…

it strikes at Society itself

Why is murder not so bad?

they can just make a new person

What are the Predestinators?

The people who work over the microscopes

How has Bernard grossly betrayed the trust imposed in him?

His heretical views on sport and soma, the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex life, his refusal to obey the teachings of Ford and behave out of office hours

How many test tubes full of spermatozoa are upset when Linda appears?

2

What does Linda say to the Director that makes everyone in the room stop laughing and fall silent?

You made me have a baby

Why is father less inappropriate than mother?

Because it is once more removed from childbearing than mother is, so it is just gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety

What makes everyone in the Fertilizing Room laugh again?

John calls the Director “my father”

How many more test tubes of spermatozoa are upset after everyone starts laughing again?

6

What does the Director do when John calls him his father?

He covers his ears with his hands and rushes out of the room

What does the Director do after the scene in the Fertilizing Room?

He resigns immediately and never sets foot inside the Centre again

Why do people want to see John but not Linda?

Because calling Thomas his father is a funny joke but Linda claiming to be a mother is past a joke, it’s an obscenity. And, she wasn’t a real savage. And, she is fat, old, has bad teeth, a blotched complexion, and a bad figure.

Why is Linda excited to be back in civilization?

She can just lie in bed and take a continuous soma holiday without having to feel as she felt after peyotl

Who is the doctor that gives Linda soma?

Dr. Shaw

How much soma does Linda take a day?

As much as 20 grammes

How long does Dr. Shaw say Linda will live for, due to all the soma she is taking?

A month or two

How will soma kill Linda?

Her respiratory centre will be paralyzed and she will stop breathing

When John objects to Linda having so much soma, what reasoning does Dr. Shaw give for why it is shortening and lengthening her life simultaneously?

It may take a few years off of her life, but every soma holiday is a bit of eternity

Eternity was…

in our lips and eyes

What floor of Bernard’s apartment house is Linda on?

37

What tap is just dripping?

The patchouli tap

What is the soma holiday like for Linda?

The TV images are performers in some indescribably delicious all singing feely and the patchouli is the sun, a million sexophones, Popé making love, and much more

Why is Dr. Shaw grateful Bernard called him in to help with Linda’s soma?

Because it is not possible to rejuvenate her but at least he can see an example of senility in a human being

Why is everyone treating Bernard differently now?

Because he is the accredited guardian of John and controls who sees him

What does Benito Hoover give Bernard in order to try to get on his good side?

Six packets of sex-hormone chewing gum

What does the Assistant Predestinator do to get an invitation to one of Bernard’s evening parties?

He comes out and acts for it in an almost desperate way

What does Bernard now have to do in order to get any girl he wants?

Hint at the possibility of an invitation to one of his evening parties

When does Bernard ask Fanny to meet the Savage?

Wednesday

Who is on Bernard’s list of notabilities?

The Chief Bottler, the Director of Predestination, three Deputy Assistant Fertilizer-Generals, the Professor of Feelies in the College of emotional Engineering, the Dean of the Westminster Community Singery, the Supervisor of Bokanovskification

How many girls does Bernard tell Helmholtz he had last week and what days were they on?

6 total (one on Monday, two on Tuesday, two on Friday, and one on Saturday)

Why won’t Bernard talk to Helmholtz again?

He said he is sad at what Bernard has become

Why does Bernard refuse to forego the privilege of criticizing the order even though it reconciled him due to the fact that he is now seen as important?

Criticizing heightens his sense of importance and he does genuinely believe there are things to criticize