"The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust," (Huxley, 107).
This simile describing Bernard and Lenina's vacation home points out the dissimilarities the savage reserve has from the society from which they came. For the first thing, there's dust. Lenina continuously points the uncleanliness of the savages, having never experienced it herself. They, in many ways were like the "ship" out of place in the middle of a desert; visitors, not unwanted, but strangely mechanical and out of place. During their stay, the pair also experience the horrors of the elderly. Growing old similarly holds a sense of fear and dread for our society. The young fear senility and the senile dread the declination of the bodies. This society thinks that they have found the solution but their system of disposing of the elderly carries a high, but invisible, price.
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