In an early scene of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Polly Trotsky, a sexually precocious pre-pubescent girl, has just traumatized a little boy who was “reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play” expected of children their age.
Polly is anxious to establish her innocence before a nurse, tasked with overseeing the children’s frolicking, and a group of older students on tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center.
Read Full Article »‘I didn’t mean to hurt him or anything. Honestly.’
‘Of course you didn’t, dear,’ said the nurse reassuringly. ‘And so,’ she went on, turning back to the Director, ‘I’m taking him in to see the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology. Just to see if anything’s at all abnormal.’
