"It's Like Ten Thousand Spoons When All You Need is a Knife" (Brave New World: 17)

"... that beautiful, beautiful Other Place, whose memory, as of a heaven, a paradise of goodness and loveliness, he still kept whole and intact, undefiled by contact with the reality of this real London, these actual civilized men and women."
-Page 201

I find this quote to be extremely ironic. John is sitting over his mother on her death bed, and he is recalling all of the happy times they had together. One of these happens to be when she would tell him stories of the Other Place, where people were civilized, unlike on the Reservation. He thought so highly of this Other Place, and wanted nothing more than to get to experience it for himself. HOWEVER, he does get to experience the Other Place, and he finds it to be a nightmare. He finds these people to be living a fake life controlled by a drug. Still yet, he won't let his findings tarnish the image he had of the Old Place from the stories his mother had told him. In his mind a heavenly place like he imagined still does exist somewhere. And this London, this outside world, was not the Old Place she had spoken of before. It is somewhat sad, but very ironic.

P.S. The title are lyrics from the song Ironic by Alanis Morissette.
P.P.S. She is kind of crazy, and this video is weird, but enjoy!