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Originally posted on Facebook's The Writerly Digest by Writerly Digest (I know that's complicated, but it is all good), the quote spoke to me. Additionally, it revived long-held respect for Huxley. Here are, as the BBC would say, the main points of that:
Originally posted on Facebook's The Writerly Digest by Writerly Digest (I know that's complicated, but it is all good), the quote spoke to me. Additionally, it revived long-held respect for Huxley. Here are, as the BBC would say, the main points of that:
- Huxley, C.S. Lewis, and John F. Kennedy all died on the same day and the same year.
- I read "Brave New World" in high school, long before it was controversial.
- At that time I read several others by him, and read more at university even though I was not an English major!
- On my first trip to Europe, I bought a German copy of "The Doors of Perception", which according to rumor was banned in the USA. Whether it was or not, I do not know. But it was a good read and helped my German.
- Reading the post (thanks, Stephanie Weisend!) got me thinking about a poem.
- And reading the post showed me that Huxley hit the nail on the head.
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