I'm posting a link to this essay in the LA Times. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/aldous-huxley-in-los-angeles/#.Uo_K-Q07yRE.twitter
It's about Aldous Huxley. I did not know that he died on the same day as JFK, nor that he was injected (at his own written request) with LSD just prior to death.
I don't think I've read much, if any, Aldous Huxley. I can hardly believe that I'm saying that, given that his name was bandied around by many of the writers and musicians of my youth. Surely I must have had a crack at The Doors of Perception and Brave New World? I like the sound of Crome Yellow. That's next on my reading list.
A trip to the library would be on the cards, if I thought there might be the slightest chance that they'd have any of his books among their rapidly-dwindling stock. As it is a trawl through the 1p. listings on Amazon will have to do. I know it's wrong but needs must.
Update I just learned via this article here that CS Lewis also died on that day! And someone has recommended a couple of books - Laura Huxley's biography of her husband, and Michael Holroyd's biography of Lytton Strachey, which apparently has a lot of related information. So I will have a look for those two.
Crome Yellow first though.
It's about Aldous Huxley. I did not know that he died on the same day as JFK, nor that he was injected (at his own written request) with LSD just prior to death.
I don't think I've read much, if any, Aldous Huxley. I can hardly believe that I'm saying that, given that his name was bandied around by many of the writers and musicians of my youth. Surely I must have had a crack at The Doors of Perception and Brave New World? I like the sound of Crome Yellow. That's next on my reading list.
A trip to the library would be on the cards, if I thought there might be the slightest chance that they'd have any of his books among their rapidly-dwindling stock. As it is a trawl through the 1p. listings on Amazon will have to do. I know it's wrong but needs must.
Update I just learned via this article here that CS Lewis also died on that day! And someone has recommended a couple of books - Laura Huxley's biography of her husband, and Michael Holroyd's biography of Lytton Strachey, which apparently has a lot of related information. So I will have a look for those two.
Crome Yellow first though.
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