He tries to show her the ocean, and to express some of his subversive views to her, but she cries. A group of men and women sing and take soma together, and it eventually turns into an "orgy-porgy". The next day is Bernard Marx's Solidarity Service Day. Lenina and Henry eat dinner, go on a soma-holiday, and see a concert of synthetic music. Following her departure, there is more bitterness on the part of Bernard concerning his own inferiority. Lenina confirms with Bernard that she would like to go on a trip with him to The Savage Reservation. There are some short interludes between Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller of Europe, and the students Lenina and her friend Fanny and Bernard Marx and Henry Foster. They pass onto the conditioning rooms, where they reinforce the caste divisions by sleep-teaching. He explains the scientific process by which human beings are fertilized and custom-made, and shows them the Social Predestination room, where workers create the social castes. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is leading a tour group of young students around a lab. Ford is the God-surrogate that many citizens of the World State believe is also Freud, the controversial psychosexual psychologist. The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, in the years A.F., or After Ford.
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