"The mind that judges and desires and decides - made up of these suggestions." (Page 29)
I must be completely honest: I didn't think I would get to use the literary term assonance in these blogs simply because I rarely notice it in use. But alas, I have discovered it! And I am ecstatic!!
"...desires and decides..." are the words in question here, and they are kind of fun to read. It spices up the sentence! The Director is telling the visiting students about the uses of hypnopaedia, and he is saying that the children's minds absorb the information fed to them in their sleep and that information helps to shape their minds. Personally, I wouldn't mind being able to learn in my sleep. This idea is the only one so far in this story that doesn't disgust me. To this point, I have wanted to cast the book aside dramatically to display how uncomfortable I am in reading about this disgraceful civilization. It sounds positively barbaric to be raised by electric floors and horrific loud noises after being "decanted" - not born - in a factory of children. Yuck.
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