'Then why aren't you on an island yourself?'

All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. 'Whereas, if he had the smallest sense, he'd understand that his punishment is really a reward.

“One would think he was going to have his throat cut,' said the Controller, as the door closed. 'I'll teach you I'll make you be free whether you want to or not.' And pushing open a window that looked on to the inner court of the Hospital, he began to throw the little pill-boxes of soma tablets in handfuls out into the area.” 'Don't you?' he repeated, but got no answer to his question. 'Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?' Rage was making him fluent the words came easily, in a rush. Grief and remorse, compassion and duty–all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters. The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes.

Mewling and puking,' he added, exasperated by their bestial stupidity into throwing insults at those he had come to save.

His face was flushed, his eyes bright with ardour and indignation. “But do you like being slaves?' the Savage was saying as they entered the Hospital.

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