harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory" (Huxley 3). This illustration suggests that the forces of nature (the light) now go hand-in-hand with the ideas of the new world. "The light was frozen, dead, a ghost" (3) obviously passes on to the audience that the lab is no inviting place to happier things such as light. Huxley can easily make a ride on a helicopter seem common for his readers, describing its sounds and images vividly. "He started the engines and threw the helicopter screws into gear. The machine shot vertically into the air. Henry accelerated; the humming of the propeller shrilled from hornet to wasp, from wasp to mosquito; the speedometer showed that they were rising at the best part of two kilometers a minute" (61). The progression of sounds and speed of the helicopter suggests advancement in the aviation fields. Huxley continues, describing the skyline: "Like the vague torsos of fabulous athletes, huge fleshy clouds lolled on the blue air above their heads" (61). Since the sky still seems the same as it is today with that vibrant description, that quip suggests the environment is not as polluted
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