The boys always make fun of him because Linda doesn't know how to mend clothes but John has one thing above them: he can read.Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers. Unfortunately, the only book she has for him to read is The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo. Yet she somehow finds the time to teach John to read.Linda continues to be a harlot by the standards of the Reservation, and everyone continues to taunt her for it.Of course, the two worlds get all mixed up in his mind.
They talk about their legends and their mythology of Jesus and Heaven. But when he isn't hearing these stories from Linda, John is hearing other, very different stories from the children of the Reservation.Mostly, John remembers her telling him all about the "Other Place" (i.e., the world outside of the Reservation), where everything is clean and you can fly whenever you want and you basically have happiness on tap, along with synthetic music, perfumes, and of course narcotics ( soma).Fortunately, Linda's maternal instinct kicks in and she starts doing mothering things, like actually comforting her son.In other words, his life sucks completely, it isn't his fault, and there's nothing he can do about it. When he tries to comfort his mother later, she hits him because she resents being his mother. When John tries to stop them, he is whipped, too.Shortly thereafter, Linda is whipped (literally whipped) by the women in the town because she is sleeping with all their men.There's also a man named Popé who brings mescal (it's like tequila) over to the house and has lots of sex with Linda.He remembers Linda telling him to play with the other children and her being angry at the people for being such savages. He also remembers a dark room with women making blankets.Linda says, "Not with John here," so the man forcibly removes John, locking him in a different room of the house while he has sex with Linda. When he wakes up, a man is trying to sleep with his mom. Little John is lying down in bed with his mom, and she's singing him to sleep.He asks John to tell him his whole story, from the very beginning.It baffles him that there could be two such worlds in coexistence. Bernard is having a hard time dealing with the reality of the Reservation.While Lenina and Linda bond with each other inside, Bernard and John are outside talking.
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