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"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

In a genetically-engineered utopia where comfort is mandatory and individuality is extinct, the World State maintains total stability at the cost of the human soul.

Chapter 5-6
00:27 5 Lenina and Henry enjoy drug-fueled, mindless sex. Meanwhile, Bernard’s mandatory group orgy fails to cure his loneliness, leaving him more alienated from society than before.
27:14 6 Bernard’s rebellion collapses into conformity with Lenina; he faces exile after the Director’s slip, panics over punishment, and travels with Lenina to Savage Reservation, soma-induced.

Characters
Director of D.H.C - The authoritative figure who leads the student tour and explains the technical "birth" process
Henry Foster - The Director's assistant and a high-caste Alpha who is obsessed with statistics and the efficiency of the hatchery
Lenina Crowne - A Beta-minus worker on the assembly line, specifically the "Embryo Store", who is described as uncommonly pretty
Mustapha Mond - Resident World Controller for Western Europe, sophisticated superior leader who enforces social stability through censorship while secretly possessing forbidden knowledge
Bernard Marx - An Alpha-Plus specialist in Hypnopaedia whose physical stuntedness causes him to feel like a social outcast
Fanny Crowne - A Beta technician in the Bottling Room who acts as a strictly orthodox representative of the World State’s social rules
Helmholtz Watson - Alpha-plus lecturer and writer, is admired and impressive but secretly frustrated by the emptiness of his work and the World State.

Costa's Wordbook
Pullulation n the rapid, abundant breeding or growth of living things (Pul, like dull, lew laytion)
Switchback n a road, path, or railway with alternate sharp ascents and descents
the little death - (fr, la petite mort) idiom for sexual orgasm
Deturgescence n the state of being relatively dehydrated (det tur jazz sence)
Diminuendo n a decrease in loudness in a piece of music (dim Min u endo)
Plangently adv in a way that expresses sadness, especially through a deep, low sound (Plan gent ly)
Midriff n the region of the front of the body between the chest and the waist (Mid driff)
Quaff v drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily
Plexus n a network of nerves or vessels in the body; an intricate network (Plex ses)
Supine adj lying on one's back with face upwards (face downwards is drone) (Sue pyne)

Tremolo n when singing or playing an instrument, a shaking sound that is achieved by repeating the same note extremely quickly or by playing two notes very quickly, one after the other (Trem moe loe)
Archness n the quality of being deliberately or affectedly playful and teasing
Infantile adj childish; of or occurring among babies or very young children
Brachycephalic adj having a relatively broad, short skull (Brack ke se phalic)
Decilitre n one tenth of a litre, a metric unit of capacity (Desil litre)
Athabascan n a family of languages spoken primarily by certain Indigenous peoples of western Canada, Alaska, and the U.S. Southwest
Pueblo n a settlement of Indigenous peoples in the south-western US, especially one consisting of multistorey, flat-roofed houses built of adobe or stone by the Pueblo people (Pu where blo)
Malpais n spa, ‘bad lands’, describe rugged, barren volcanic landscapes, most famously exemplified by El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico (Mal Pies)
Zuñi - The Zuni are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley.
Octoroon n off. a person who is one-eighth black by descent (Octo roon)

Complete Features
Count of Monte Cristo, Songs of Dead Dreamer, Last Unicorn, Brothers Karamazov, Fellowship of the Ring, Winnie the Pooh, Jane Eyre, Angels & Demons, Perfume, Great Gatsby, Jekyll & Hyde, Maigret, 1984, Metamorphosis, Dracula, Don Quixote, Dorian Gray, Anne Frank, Lord of the Flies, Liar's Poker, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Great Expectations

Milestone
2021: 0 Full soundtrack, no editing, wife commentary, summary outline, irregular release
2022: 2.0 DaVinci editing, wordbook, book intro, AI host + illustration, chapter summary, scheduled release
2023: 2.1 Descript, CapCut, Suno score, character intro, weekly release
2024: 2.2 Standard condenser mic, Audacity, ChatGPT annotation + illustration, timestamp, 1-hour content

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