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...writers leave behind even one legend. It is Aldous Huxley's distinction that he managed to leave...
THIS TIMELESS MOMENT: A PERSONAL VIEW OF ALDOUS HUXLEY by Laura Ar-chera Huxley. 330 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...contemporaries in the 1920s, young Aldous Huxley had been a legend for his "lack of charity." He was seen as "a walking encyclopedia," alive only from the neck up. Aldous, Elizabeth Bowen once said with damning praise, was "the stupid person's idea of the clever person...
...alienated of a latter-day generation, Huxley was all heart: pacifist, passionate pioneer of mind-blowing drugs, hippie blood brother in Oriental mysticism. But when this Aldous Huxley, shot through with cancer and LSD, died at 69-a few hours after President Kennedy-on Nov. 22, 1963, he could have met no stranger ghost on his final trip than his younger self...
Which legend is nearer to the truth-the bright young cynic or the compassionate old guru? In different ways, these three books grapple with the question. And by the intensity they generate, they suggest that the question concerns what sort of face is not only most appropriate for Huxley but also for the age of transition whose dilemmas he so accurately reflected...