Project Gutenberg #60483
Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley
1923Huxley's postwar London satire, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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CHAPTER XXII
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Chapter 22 — CHAPTER XXII Central question What does the stationary bicycle scene tell us about work? Main argument Shearwater pedals hard to simulate labor, and the absurd machine turns exercise into a spectacle...
on; he would be at
Amiens by midnight if he went on at this rate. He was escaping, he had
escaped. He was building up his strong light dome of life. Proportion,
cried the old man, proportion! And it hung there, proportioned and
beautiful in the dark, confused horror of his desires, solid and strong
and durable among his broken thoughts. Time flowed darkly past.
“And now,” said Mrs. Viveash, straightening herself up, and giving
herself a little shake, “now we’ll drive to Hampstead and have a look at
Piers Cotton.”