DRUMS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 These drums beat out just the same rhythms.
2 Up there, in Malpais, the drums were being beaten.
3 The drums stopped beating, life seemed to have come to an end.
4 But now he had these words, these words like drums and singing and magic.
5 Then again the drums; and once more the men's deep savage affirmation of their manhood.
6 She too had poetry at her command, knew words that sang and were spells and beat drums.
7 A few drops fell, and suddenly the drums broke out again into a panic of hurrying notes; there was a great shout.
8 Like drums, like the men singing for the corn, like magic, the words repeated and repeated themselves in his head.
9 A sound of subterranean flute-playing came up and was almost lost in the steady remorseless persistence of the drums.
10 Sometimes the pulsing of the drums was all but inaudible, at others they seemed to be beating only just round the corner.
11 A few long notes and silence, the thunderous silence of the drums; then shrill, in a neighing treble, the women's answer.
12 Outside, in the other room, the Savage was striding up and down, marching, marching to the drums and music of magical words.
13 At the further end of the room was another doorway, through which came a shaft of sunlight and the noise, very loud and close, of the drums.
14 The President stood up, made the sign of the T and, switching on the synthetic music, let loose the soft indefatigable beating of drums and a choir of instruments--near-wind and super-string--that plangently repeated and repeated the brief and unescapably haunting melody of the first Solidarity Hymn.