[i]As the inventor of the old “soma” – Aldous Huxley – put it in 1984: “…there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon…”[/i]

Uh, it was Huxley’s [i]Brave New World[/i]. [i]1984[/i] was a less pleasant place.