“By which time the original egg was in fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos – a prodigious improvement, you will agree…” (7).
What is Brave New World
100
“’They think I’m mad,’ he whispered, and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes” (7).
What is Night
100
“In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble baron of…” (11).
What is Candide
100
“After the earthquake… the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to preserve the kingdom from utter ruin…” (28).
What is Candide
200
“Yes, and civilization is sterilization” (110).
What is Brave New World
200
“One half of the passengers, weakened and half-dead with the inconceivable anxiety and sickness…” (25).
What is Candide
200
“… two and a half minutes early at New Orleans, lost four minutes in a tornado over Texas, but flew into a favorable air current at Longitude 95 West…” (99).
What is Brave New World
200
“Our backyard looked like a market. Valuable objects precious rugs, silver candle sticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty ground” (15).
What is Night
300
“The little ragmuffins immediately dropped their games leaving the quoits on the ground with all their play things…” (66).
What is Candide
300
“His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian. The toothless man had fallen in” (110).
What is Brave New World
300
“… it looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead.” (47).
What is Night
300
“How he had aged… His body was completely twisted, shriveled up into himself” (88).
What is Night
400
“He made a grimace ‘Goats and monkeys!’ Only in Othello’s words could he find and adequate vehicle for his contempt and hatred” (219).
What is Brave New World
400
“My eyebrows were as black as jet; and as for my eyes, they darted flames…” (41).
What is Candide
400
“… leaving in its wake, in a snowy field… hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb” (99).
What is Night
400
“He felt hot tears welling up behind his eyelids as he recalled the words…” (201).