HUMAN SOMATIC SYSTEMS
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SOUND
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Verbal language: "Her voice was thick and
hoarse like somebody else´s voice"
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"and suddenly a Voice,a deep strong voice , more
musical that nay merely human voice ,richer,warmer,more vibrant with love
anf yearning and compassion , a wonderful , mysterious,supernatural voice
spoken from above their heads. Very slowly ,´oh Ford,Ford,Ford ,´it´s
said diminishigly and on a descending scale."
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Paralanguage : "The screaming of the babies
suddenly change its tone."
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Other sound : "There was a silence; then,
clearing his throat ´Once upon a time´, the director began..."
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MOVEMENT
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KINESIC
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Gestures :"Mustapha Mond leaned forward ,
shook a finger at them..."
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Manners :"`Yes,´said Mustapha Mond ,nodding
his head ,`you may well shudder´¨
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Postures :"When they had arrived and were
comfortly strechted out on the pneumatic sofas in Bernard´s room...
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PROXEMICS-ORIENTATION
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"Like aphides and ants, the leaf-green Gamma girls,
the black Semi-Morons swarmed round the entrances , or stood in queues
to take their places in the monorail trams-cars"
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CHEMICAL
"By this time soma had begun to work.Eyes
shone,cheeks were flushed,the inner light of universal benevolence broke
out on every face in happy,friendly smiles."
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DERMAL
"Again?´Fanny´s kind,rather
moon-like face took on an incongruous expression of pained and disapproving
astonishment."
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OBJECTUAL SYSTEMS
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BODYADAPTORS
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NUTRITIONAL
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FOOD
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"Five khaki twins ,each with the stump of a long
éclair in his right hand , and their identical faces variously smeared
with liquid chocolate,were standing in a row ,puggily goggling at him."
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DRINK
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"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."
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PSEUDO-NUTRITIONAL
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DRINKS;TOBACCO
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" He sat down and lit a cigarette."
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NARCOTICS
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"Only a drink of mescal every now and then , when
Popé used to bring it."
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MASTICATORIES
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" ´The day´s soma ration´,Bernard
answered , rather indistinctly , for he was masticating a piece of Benito
Hoover´s chewing gum."
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CLOTHES,HEADGEAR,FOOTWEAR
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"Lenina pulled at her zippers -downwards with a double-handed
gesture at the two that held the throusers,downwars again to loosen her
undergarment.Still wearing her shoes and stockings , she walk off towards
the bathrooms."
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"A green-and-white jockey cap shaded Lenina´s
eyes;her shoes were bright green and highly polished.Green corduroy shorts
and white-viscose woollen stockinds turned down below the knee."
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JEWERLY & OBJECT ADORNEMENT
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"And round her waist she wore a silver-mounted green
morocco-surrogate cartridge belt,bulging (for Lenina was not freemartin)
with the regulation supply of contraceptives."
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PAINT,COSMETICS,PERFUMES
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" A blast of warmed air dusted her with the finest
talcum powder.Eight different scents and eau-de-Cologne were laid on in
the little taps over the wash-basin."
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EAT,DRINK & SMOKING UTENSILIS
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" He rose , put down his glass , brushed from his
purple viscose waiscoat , the crumbs of a considerable collation,and walk
towards the door."
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WRITING TOOLS and WRITING
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"Each of them carried a note-book , in which, whenever
the great man spoke , he desperately scribbled"
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"Reponds by budding". The pencils were busy."
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" With a piece of charcoal she drew pictures on the
wall - an animal sitting down, a baby inside a bottle; then she wrote letters."
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OBJECTADAPTORS
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FOOD AND DRINK
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" She drank and passed the cup to Bernard."
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DOMESTIC IMPLEMENTS
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" Lenina walked after him , out of the room.The other
guests followed at a respectful interval.The last of them slammed the door."
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OCCUPATIONAL IMPLEMENTS
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"They hurried out of the room and returned in a minute
or two,each pushing a kind of tall dumb-waiter laden, on all its four wire-netted
shelves,with eight-month-old babies , all exactly alike (A Bokanovsky Group)..."
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"The Controller skipped the next sentences and just
about to turn the page in search of something more interestingly concrete,
when his eyes caught by a series of quite extraordinary phrases."
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ANATOMICAL FURNITURE
"Standing on a chair to get a better
view some one upset two tes-tubes full of spermatozoa."
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ENVIRONMENTAL
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DECORATIVE OBJECTS & VISUAL ARTS
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"The savage meanwhile wandered restlessly round the
room,peering with a vague superficial inquisitiveness at the books in the
shelves,at the sound-track rolls and the reading-machine bobbins in their
numbered pigeon-holes."
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NON ADAPTORS ARTIFACTS
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"The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks
in all the Bloomsbury Center´s four thousand rooms marked twenty
seven minutes past two."
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TV,FILM,PRESS,BOOKS,GRAPHIC ARTS
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"At the foot of every bed , confronting its moribund
occupant , was a television box.Television was left on , a running tap,
from morning till night."
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" Going to the Feelies this evening , Henry?´enquired
the Assistant Predestinator.´I hear the new one at the Alhambra s
first-rate.There´s a love scene on a bearskin rug, they say it´s
marvellous every hair of the bear reproduced.The most amaizing tactual
effect.´"
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"In the basement and on the lower floors were the
presses and offices of the three great London newspapers -The Hourly Radio,
an upper caste sheet,the pale green Gamma Gazette,and,on khaki paper and
in words exclusively of one syllable the Delta Mirror."
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"The Chemical and bacteriological conditioning of
embryo.Practical instructions for Beta-Embryo-Store Workers ; The imitation
of Christ ; The varieties of Religious Experience by Williams James."
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VEHICLES
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"The air was drowsy withthe murmur of bees and helicopters"
"There´s the Red Rocket ´said Henry
´just come in from New York!.Looking at his watch,´seven minutes
behind time,´he added , and shook his head.´These Atlantic
Services -´they´re really scandalously unpunctual´."
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BUILT
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ARCHITECTURE
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"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."
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"The various Bureux of Propaganda and the College
of Emotional Engineering were housed in a single sixty-story build In Fleet
Street."
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Other Structures
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The hangars were staffed by a single Bokanosvky group."
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MUSIC
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"´Damn, I´m late´ Bernard said
to himslef as he first caught sights of Big Henry, The Singey Clock. And
sure enough as he was paying off his cab , Big Henry sounded the hour.´Ford´sang
out an inmense bass voice from all the golden trumpets ´Ford,Ford,Ford...´nine
times."
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Town and settelment layout
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"On the north the view was bounded by tha long chalk
ridge of the Hog´s Back from behind whose eastern extremity rose
the tower of the seven skyscrapers which constituted Guilford."
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"Five hundred and sixty thousand square kilometers
,divided into four distinct sub-Reservations ,each surrounded by a high-tension
wire fence."
MODIFIED
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LANDSCAPING
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"The channel wound between precipitous banks, and
slating from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green
- the river and its fields."
Agricultural Forms: Not found
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NATURAL
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terrain : At their feet lay a straggle of
low buildigns, a criss-cross of walls, and on three sides the precipices
feel sheer into the plain.
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flora : there were ash trees near the lighthouse
and, for arrow shafts, a whole copse full of beautifully straight hazel
saplings.
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color : he looked out over the bright sunrise
world which he had regained the right to inhabit.
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light : Naked in the warm June sunshine...
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climate : the skies above them were silent
and desert.
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FAUNA
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ANIMAL
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Domesticated : Not found
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TAMED
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"Two famine-stricken dogs were nosing obscenely in the barbage at its doors."
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WILD
Pumas,porcupines and other ferocious animals
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