"He had managed, with heroic effort to hold down the mounting pressure of his hilarity; but 'sweet mother' (in the Savage's tremulous tone of anguish) and the reference to Tybalt lying dead, but evidently uncremated and wasting his phosphorous on a dim monument were too much for him." (185)
Conditioning was so effective that even when Hemholtz questioned the way that the world state operated, he followed his conditioning. He would still not open his mind to inefficient death, or mention of the complexities of being a parent. Just like a child laughs when he does not quite grasp a serious situation, Hemholtz rejects using his mind to think through these new ideas that he is hearing. Even though his alpha plus status says that he is intelligent enough to compose newspaper articles, this new information overwhelms him. He, like every one else in society, was trained to efficiently, and he believes that in every stage of life, a person should be most efficient. This should happen from the moment that children hatch from there test tubes, up until their last moments of soma holiday. Even after death bodies produce the city's phosphorous. This coupled with the emotions of a child made him feel uncomfortable, especially while he could see that John felt so emotionally attached to this piece.
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