"Delicious perfume! He shut his eye; he rubbed his cheek against his own powdered arm. Touch of smooth skin against his face, scent in his nostrils of musky dust-her real presence." page 143
When John is creeping around in the rest house, he walks into to find Lenina, who he is so utterly infatuated with, knocked out in a soma-holiday on the bed. Here, the author employs imagery to illustrate John's attraction to her beauty. On page 144, I found a metaphor that reinforces his incredible attraction to her. "The bird was too dangerous," thought John. He feels so unworthy to touch such a majestically beautiful women, describing his hesitation to touching her as though she is too "dangerous," like a touching a dangerous bird. He does deem it necessary,though, to spout out quotes from Shakespeare to the sleeping women. Words can be piercing, Helmholtz said, but not to someone who is knocked out on a large dose of drugs. Maybe he will find a more important use of his words later on in the novel, as Helmholtz has said.
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