I am currently reading (half way through) Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World and found that pneumatic is used alot as an adjactive desribing women. Namely one of the central characters Lenina. It seem's a rather odd word to use to descirbe someone and i was wondering what charcteristics it's actually trying to show?
Pneumatic means filled with air or to that effect, so i was wondering what Huxley was trying to portray with this charcterisitc?
She seems to get around a bit
although also she's not really "dumb" or an "airhead" either? I mean, that's how she's been conditioned and all, and also she takes
soma a lot of the time...
Anyway, anyone who's read the book or has any insight on this, would be appreciated
