dont read
... Reading books and appreciating paintings produce solitude, and they dont serve the consumer value system of the World State. ... Linda taught him to read by drawing in the dirt at first. ... John read it avidly until he could quote passages by heart. ... To John, Lenina is only an abstract rendering of all the virtuous women he has read about in Shakespeares works. ... Mustapha arrives and sayst to John, "So you dont much like civilization, Mr. ... " John is pleasantly surprised to know that Mustapha has read Shakespeare. ... Mustapha has read Shakespeare. ... John appeals to Mustapha to allow literature such as Shakespeare to be read and performed. ... Having read about the "orgy of atonement" in the papers, a swarm of visitors descends on Johns lighthouse to discover that he has hanged himself.