ENDS AND MEANS — Aldous Huxley — Harper ($3.50). While some of his post-War English contemporaries were turning from disillusionment to Communism, the Roman Catholic Church and suicide ...
Aldous Huxley isn't as famous as George Orwell is ... Morrison's band took their name from The Doors Of Perception, Huxley's book about his experiences with the drug mescaline.
When Aldous Huxley published his essay "The Doors of Perception" in 1954, he did much to publicize a very strange drug. "Mescaline," he writes, "admits one to an other-world of light, color ...
In Huxley's future, babies are born in labs ... Literature is on its way to extinction, and Montag's duty is to light the books on fire. Like 1984, it highlights the dangers of mind control ...
Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was reportedly obsessed with Jash Dholani's book Hit ...