He tries to let himself become one with the larger group but, always fails. The song suggests that each individual can become larger than themselves if they become as one.īernard is well aware that for himself, becoming as one with the group was not going to happen. The soma makes each participant pliable to the suggestions of the song. As the soma ice-cream is passed around each participant takes a drink saying 'I drink to my annihilation.' The participants sing hymns in an effort to become as one. Soma tablets are put in the center of the table along with a cup of soma strawberry ice-cream. The President again makes the sign of the T and sits down. In each participant, their bowels are left with a yearning for the music. The music is not meant to be heard but rather felt in the midriff. After making the sign of the T, the President turns on the music. The purpose of the service is for the 12 individuals to become one larger being. Six men and six women alternatingly sit in a circle. With the arrival of the last person, Sarojini Engels, the circle of twelve starts its service. He slips into one of the three open chairs in the room. Walking into the room he is happy to see that he is not the last person to arrive. Bernard runs to the elevator and procedes up to the 33 rd floor. The music signifies to Bernard that he is going to be late for his meeting. Unfortunately he is arriving just as the golden trumpets on the landing pad are playing music. From the Aphroditaeum, Bernard takes a helicopter to the Fordson Community Singery. Before the meeting Bernard has dinner at the Aphroditaeum with Helmholtz, who is a member.

Before they are able to complete their evening, Lenina true to her conditioning takes all the contraceptive measures she has been taught.īernard, meanwhile, is attending his every other Thursday Solidarity Service meeting. Henry and Lenina take some more soma and return to Henry's apartment to complete their night. As the night ends, loudspeakers tell the dancers to leave with a congenial 'Good-night, dear friends.' Since all the couples are conditioned to obey these commands everyone leaves quickly, but happily. Lenina and Henry join the other dancers on the floor and do the five-step. All the Latest Synthetic Music.' The color organ casts colors on the ceiling of the hall this night is a tropical sunset. It is billed as 'London's Finest Scent and Color Organ. Once at the cabaret, they dance to the music of 'Calvin Stopes and His Sixteen Sexophonists'. This enables them to attend the cabaret with a pleasant state of mind. They, of course, have a bit of soma with the after dinner coffee. They eat dinner in the dining-hall of Henry's apartment house in Westminster before going to the Westminster Abbey Cabaret. Instead they are reassured that the person who is cremated is happy now knowing that they are helping the Society's agricultural production. The programming which they receive as youngsters allows them to dispel any such thoughts or feelings. Lenina and Henry do not feel any sadness at the loss of a human being.

The lift is due to the hot gas being expelled from the crematorium. Lenina thinks this is great fun until Henry explains the sudden lift is because someone has been cremated. They are suddenly lifted up higher in the air and just as suddenly plummeted back to the altitude they were originally at. As they are discussing the fact that even Epsilons contribute to society they fly over the smoke stacks. Henry explains that physico-chemically, all the people are equal. But Lenina feels that the Alphas and Betas are contributing more than the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. Henry feels that in some way it is as if a person is still contributing to society even after they are dead. A kilo and a half comes from each adult body and is used for agricultural production.

Henry tells her they are for phosphorus recovery. She is curious about the balconies around the smoke stacks. Lenina notices the four chimneys rising out of the crematorium. They leave in Henry's helicopter and fly over the Slough Crematorium. Chapter five finds Henry and Lenina at the Stoke Poges Club House.

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