![]() ![]() The savage reveals that his father's name is Tomakin. Bernard starts paying close attention-as you should.Meanwhile, he explains to them both that his mother, Linda, came from the Other Place (meaning off the Reservation) before he was born. He averts his eyes again from the beauty that is Lenina.When he does, little animated hearts go flying through the air. Meanwhile, the young man hasn't yet looked at Lenina.But he says they never give him the chance to do fun stuff like that because he's white (not dark-skinned like the other Indians). The young man says he himself should have been the sacrifice (that is, the boy that got ritualistically whipped).Lenina responds with a useless hypnopaedic rhyme.The young man points to the blood on the floor and says, "Do you see that damned spot?" (Shakespeare, anyone?).Bernard is shocked the savages don't generally know about the outside world.He asks them if they're civilized, that is, they come from outside the Reservation. Bernard and Lenina are left alone (Lenina: sob "it's so terrible!" sob) until a young man, white but wearing Indian dress, joins them.Three women pick him up and carry him away, hopefully for some sort of medical treatment and not more lashings. The dancers all pick up the snakes and run away, leaving behind the collapsed, bloody boy on the floor.He shakes it over the pile of snakes, dropping the blood onto the writhing creatures. An old man touches a white feather to the boy's bloody body, which not surprisingly turns red. ![]()
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