"Northwards, beyond and above the trees, the Internal and External Secretions factory glared with a fierce electric brilliance from every window of its twenty stories." (Page 73)
Just reading this sentence gives me the chills. Huxley makes the factory seem like a bull ready to charge the matador with its glaring eyes. I just have this image in my head of the scene from Cars when Mater and Lightning McQueen go tractor-tipping and meet Frank, the evil bull-like machine. The image I get is at 2:25 of the following clip.
What a great movie. But I digress. This quote appears during Lenina's date with Henry Foster for an afternoon of Obstacle Golf. Huxley particularly enjoys personifying things in his book because it aids his imagery - the most obvious of his artistic traits as an author, and I thank him for it. Anthropomorphism is never undesirable when reading a story. It can only help.
I don't quite understand the idea of Lenina and Henry's game, but I know the general idea behind it. It seems to be an almost universally enjoyed sport by the characters because of what they get to do afterwards. When, later in the book, Bernard mentions that Obstacle Golf is not his activity of choice, Lenina is taken aback simply because it is almost second nature for the people in her world to enjoy the game. It was unsurprising for me though because Bernard strikes me as a character who enjoys his solitude and deep conversations in a private setting. He sure is a dynamic character.
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