Brave New World Chapter 1 Notes

People in story being conditioned 
• not philosophers but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the back bone of society 
• A.F?
• the alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled 
• major instruments of social stability 
• decanted- poured out 
• ingenuos- childlike simplicity 
• made them taste the rich blood surrogate on which it fed 
• ... out of the realm of the mere slavish imitation of nature into the much more interesting world of human invention 
• Nuisance - causes offence, annoyance , trouble or injury 

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