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But not when you're writing about nothing. Helmholtz says that words can be like X-rays-they can pierce anything. This is followed by one of the most intense and stunning passages in the book.He knows the hypnopaedic rhymes he makes are good, but he thinks that "what you make with them ought to be good too." Helmholtz thinks he has the power to say something important, if only he knew what that important thing was. Back at Bernard's place, Helmholtz asks him if he's ever felt there was something inside him waiting to come out.The text notes that such asceticism can produce even more braininess. Helmholtz's all, "That's nice, but I don't care." Instead, he talks about his self-imposed abstinence over the last two weeks.Bernard, who's a wee bit jealous of Helmholtz's internal woman-magnet, makes a point of telling him he's taking Lenina to New Mexico.As Helmholtz makes his way to the roof, three women jump out of the shadows and offer him a foursome.He wants something more-he just doesn't know what that something is. Despite all his extracurricular activities, Helmholtz Watson is dissatisfied.He's been with six hundred forty girls in less than four years. We would summarize this idea for you, but Huxley says it pretty well: "What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals." Interestingly, his excessive braininess has set him just a little apart from the rest of his colleagues-much like Bernard.In his downtime he writes rhyming hypnopaedic slogans. He's a lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. He is your prototypical Alpha-Plus-broad-shouldered, sturdy, good-looking. Upon hearing that Bernard is waiting, Helmholtz Watson quickly hurries to the roof.

Watson, and lights a cigarette while he waits. He lands on the roof of the Bureau of Propaganda, orders a porter to fetch this guy named Mr.(We can assume that Epsilons can't read.) Once he is flying comfortably over London, Bernard takes mental note of the different newspapers of the city: one for upper castes, one for Gammas, one for Deltas.Because Bernard is mocked, he acts like an outsider, which means he gets mocked more."I am I," he thinks, "and wish I wasn't." This is probably because he's short, whereas Alphas are supposed to be taller than everyone else. The text reveals that he is not too secure with his own authority over them.Bernard goes to his own helicopter-style machine and roughly commands the Delta-Minus workers to wheel it out for him.

He wanted her to be different from the others. It took him ages to work up the courage to ask Lenina out, and then she talked about it in public as if it were nothing.