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  • “The Euphuists were not barbarians making their first discovery of literature; they were, on the contrary, highly educated. But in one thing they were unsophisticated: they were discovering prose.” - Aldous Huxley, 1923. I read that last night after deciding to flip through some of Huxley’s early essays. I discovered a moment ago that he passed away on this day in 1963. A number of Anglophone writers thought November 22 might be a good day to die… Aldous Huxley, English prose writer whose output ranged from philosophical novels to dystopian (Brave New World) and utopian (Island) fiction (with a number of book-length essays about drugs and meditation thrown in for good measure…) - died this day in 1963 from cancer (age 69), high on the dose of LSD which he had requested his wife inject him with as he was slipping away… “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Photo: Ottoline Morrell, 1917 (NPG, London)

    “The Euphuists were not barbarians making their first discovery of literature; they were, on the contrary, highly educated. But in one thing they were unsophisticated: they were discovering prose.” - Aldous Huxley, 1923. I read that last night after deciding to flip through some of Huxley’s early essays. I discovered a moment ago that he passed away on this day in 1963.

    A number of Anglophone writers thought November 22 might be a good day to die…

    Aldous Huxley, English prose writer whose output ranged from philosophical novels to dystopian (Brave New World) and utopian (Island) fiction (with a number of book-length essays about drugs and meditation thrown in for good measure…) - died this day in 1963 from cancer (age 69), high on the dose of LSD which he had requested his wife inject him with as he was slipping away…

    “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

    Photo: Ottoline Morrell, 1917 (NPG, London)

    Posted on November 22, 2011 via Ordinary finds with 60 notes

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