![]() It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again." "As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. Only a drink of mescal every now and then, when Popé used to bring it."" What I had to suffer - and not a gramme of soma to be had. "A gramme is better than a damn," said Lenina mechanically from behind her hands. "Too awful," she kept repeating, and all Bernard's consolations were in vain. Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided." We ought not to have come here." She felt in her pocket for her soma - only to discover that, by some unprecedented oversight, she had left the bottle down at the rest-house. Laughed and then, almost immediately, dropped off to sleep." "Bernard also laughed after two grammes of soma the joke seemed, for some reason, good. "When the Warden started booming, she had inconspicuously swallowed half a gramme of soma, with the result that she could now sit, serenely not listening, thinking of nothing at all, but with her large blue eyes fixed on the Warden's face in an expression of rapt attention." And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. Least of all," she continued in another tone "why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. "I don't understand anything," she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact. Even Bernard felt himself a little melted." Eyes shone, cheeks were flushed, the inner light of universal benevolence broke out on every face in happy, friendly smiles. "By this time the soma had begun to work. ![]() The loving cup of strawberry ice-cream soma was passed from hand to hand and, with the formula, "I drink to my annihilation," twelve times quaffed." The dedicated soma tablets were placed in the centre of the table. "Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds." How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was! " ![]() "the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. Lenina took two half-gramme tablets and Henry three." "you do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma." The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma. ".there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon." "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects." Soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) Soma in Aldous Huxley's ![]()
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