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...James Joyce. "To my mind he is a very able man, but not different in kind from other able men; only more brilliant and ruthless than they, and with a preference for what H. G. Wells has styled the cloacal. In that field he is a past-master." Aldous Huxley "is still baffled by the number of entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. . . . He has a greater capacity for wisdom than any encyclopaedia-stuffed man of this era; and may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come...
...Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past the person he is talking to, Andre Malraux loves to talk, but never about himself. Says his friend and translator Haakon Chevalier, after sitting in on conferences with Paul Yalery, Count Keyserling, Aldous Huxley, Jules Romains and some 20 other leading European intellectuals: ''I can honestly say that not one of them could match Malraux for verbal artistry, for penetrating impromptu analysis of a wide range of subjects, or for knowledge of contemporary events...
BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY-Aldous Huxley-Harper...
Restless travelers both, both endowed with a seeing eye, Aldous Huxley and John Dos Passos view the world through spectacles differently tinted. Huxley is an intelligentsiac, Dos Passos a neoCommunist. But both are as free as any lances to be found these days, and their eyewitness reports make worthwhile reading for stay-at-homes...
Weak-eyed Aldous Huxley, no such graphic reporter as Dos Passos, travels always with book in hand, but never a Baedeker. With a better seat in a library than on a horse, he is a hard man to upset in his own style of country. The physical peregrinations described in Beyond The Mexique Bay took him through Central America and Mexico, but many a peak in Darien, or even the depression of a valley, set him musing on an inner landscape. When he wants to, he can be as descriptive as the next 20th Century citizen, as in this definitive...