Synaesthesia and Anagrams

"He wiped them on his chest, on his shoulders, on his bare arms. Delicious perfume!" (Brave New World, 143).

As John dug through Lenina's suitcase and later creepily watched her sleep, I found lots of imagery! In chapter nine, these images primarily illustrated the attraction John felt toward Lenina. On page 143, I found . . . "touch of smooth skin against his face," "scent in his nostrils of musky dust," and "curls, so touchingly childish." And you know what? I would be fine if they ended up together because, as I've pointed out many times, Bernard is obviously not her soul mate. Not that soul mates exist in the "civilized" world of this book.

The synaesthesia I quoted in the beginning of this post accentuated John's feeling of Lenina's presence as he stalked her and her belongings. I have a vague memory of reading The Tempest sophomore year, and there was something about smelling music, which is the same idea. I'm probably only thinking about that because John quoted Miranda for about half a page in the previous chapter.

On another note, at the beginning of chapter nine, John was standing among the "agaves." I had to look up what those are, and I learned that they're a group of American plants. Interestingly to me, "agaves" anagrams to "savage," and John was also standing among a lot of those in Malpais. I don't know if that was intentional, but I thought that was worth noting.

Speaking of anagrams . . . it starts at 1:25.