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Parodies and caricatures, observed Aldous Huxley, are "the most penetrating of criticisms." These companion anthologies skewer English and American authors from Jonathan Swift (by Alexander Pope) to Raymond Chandler (by Woody Allen) with no tips on the foils...
...data banks." Liebowitz' materialist amorality is to be expected if one is familiar with his supposedly successful therapies, for instance, giving drugs to a woman which allowed her to abandon a husband she no longer found attractive. Once we begin altering people's minds with drugs, we invite Aldous Huxley's Brave New World scenario where all are happy and none are good...
...marriage of 18 years. "None of the poet's associates appears to have known her well," Quennell observes, noting that Bertrand Russell "alleged once to have seduced her," then told a friend that she was, after all, "not so bad-light, a little vulgar, adventurous, full of life." Aldous Huxley echoed the endorsement, whereas Sacheverell Sitwell denied that she was vulgar...
...cheerfully unpretentious books. His intricately plotted, somewhat Victorian novels included Nocturne (1917) and Death of a Highbrow (1961), a book that he and his critics regarded as his best. The agreeable Swinnerton had a gift for making extraordinary friends (among them H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, G.B. Shaw and Aldous Huxley), whose lives he recounted in several spirited but gentlemanly memoirs...
...Siberia, USSR Trees Read Aldous Huxley on peyote tripping. Three meals: bread and cheese, fried eggs, cucumber, chicken soup, borscht. Read 541-page novel with jacket review, "...a man's world, where hate can swell like biceps and frontiers beckon as seductively as a woman." Play "hearts" on blanket between top bunks...