Soma: “A gram is better than a damn.”
My favorite line in BNW was the climax of the Orgy-Porgy ritual:
“It was as though an enormous negro dove was hovering benevolently over the now prone or supine worshippers.”
I had to read both 1984 & BNW in high school. After reading the Orwell horror first, Huxley’s lighter dystopia was a huge relief
You will find this interesting: the English version of `1984’ uses a line with the words, “his large, Negroid lips ... “.
The American editor was squeamish over this usage (back in 1950 or so), however, and `1984’ became a part of our Book of the Month club with the substitution: “his protuberant lips” along with other changes reflecting our preoccupation with euphemisms and disapprobation at calling a spade a spade.
Uh, revised: our American, lawyer-like sensitivity at appearing insensitive, or at calling something what it is or appears to be, or trepidation at offending anyone, anywhere at any time.