Part Four, Chapters Eight through Eleven Summary

In Chapter 8, a new prime minister named George Ockham gives a television speech about how everyone should be confident that they will be allowed to pursue the good life with minimal interference from government. Tristram watches the speech from an eating-house in the town of Chester, where he has just consumed a large meat-meal. He hears a loudspeaker announcement of a party by the river that night where partners will be provided. The town is full of soldiers and their equipment who distribute cans of meat they call "bully." He sees a news disc report of love-ins and human sacrifice in numerous countries, and then he walks out of town to hitchhike. A man driving an army truck offers a lift to a spot only a few miles from Farm NW 313. On the...