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70 “he suffers from a messianic delusion” – H. L. Mencken, “The Late Mr. Wells”, in Prejudices: First Series (Jonathan Cape, 1921), p. 28.

71 “there was, among the young” – Orwell, CW V, p. 129.

72 “My boom is over” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 319.

73 “from nebula to the Third International” – Quoted in ibid., p. 327.

74 “amazing little man” and “very refreshing” – H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows (Hodder & Stoughton, 1920), p. 138.

75 “What a narrow petty bourgeois!” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 259.

76 “never desist” – H. G. Wells, Men Like Gods (Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1923), p. 289.

77 “fear-haunted world” – H. G. Wells, The Dream (Jonathan Cape, 1924), p. 152.

78 “a huge glittering vehicle” – Orwell, CW V, p. 193.

79 “a memorable assault” – Ibid., p. 189.

80 “started out as a parody” – Paris Review, no. 23, Spring 1960.

81 “I feel that the nightmare” – Aldous Huxley letter to George Orwell, October 21, 1949, in Grover Smith (ed.), Letters of Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus, 1969), p. 605.

82 “I am writing a novel” – Aldous Huxley letter to Kethevan Roberts, May 18, 1931, ibid., p. 348.

83 “a rather horrid, vulgar little man” – Aldous Huxley letter to Robert Nichols, January 18, 1927, ibid., p. 281.

84 “Men no longer amuse themselves” – “Spinoza’s Worm” in Do What You Will (Chatto & Windus, 1929), quoted in Hillegas, p. 115.

85 “Utopias appear much more realisable” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Chatto & Windus, 1984), p. 3. Original passage is in French.

86 “just to know the worst” – Quoted in Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Vintage, 2007), p. xx.

87 “City of Dreadful Joy” – Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate (Chatto & Windus, 1926), p. 267.

88 “It is all movement and noise” – Ibid., p. 284.

89 “What’s the point of truth” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 201. Хаксли О. О дивный новый мир / пер. О. Сорока. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 352 с.