not having one of Nabokov's russian works in here is wild to meee he is such a great author :( could have included The Gift ahhhh

I initially felt quite sad for Bernard, but now he's become 1000 times more annoying. Poor John was thrown into this unknown world :( trained on Shakespeare and capable of feelings, he's the one character that one can sympathize with. Lenina is so fully conditioned that she doesn't seem to understand John and why he acts the way he does, and I don't believe they will ever be able to understand each other,,, interested to see how this ends because this story and society have been so unpredictable that I don't even have any suspicions as to the ending.

I was just wondering, why is everyone in this society (in the book) so extremely obsessed with meat? Or does it just seem so, because obv everything is about meat and from Marcos' POV? Even though it's clear from the beginning, that the transition was very much fuelled by big business interests etc., so a lot of money backing it up, wouldn't a lot of people still prefer to just manage without cannibalism? Or is the speed of the "transition", or rather the sudden unavailability of meat the important point? Since obviously it takes time to produce enough plant based protein for everyone (less space though). And then once the society was transitioning, everyone became so accustomed (and everything became so totalitarian) that they couldn't imagine otherwise? Just some thoughts I had abt the premise / backbone of this book. Feel free to give other viewpoints! It's so interesting to analyze this tbh.