#aldous huxley
We’re only two weeks away from Prime releasing Good Omens! Probably my most anticipated Story-to-Screen translation - though we’ve really been spoiled for choice these last few years, haven’t we? American Gods, Preacher, Happy, Umbrella Academy, Locke and Key, Nos4atu… my god, Brave New World! it’s a golden age of adaptation and I for one couldn’t be happier.
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick
The Silver Locusts, Ray Bradbury
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You can only be independent of God while you’ve got youth & prosperity. — Aldous Huxley
A note on nostalgia. The part emotions play in creating identity and meaning.
Listening to the music of The Advisory Circle has been a fascinating experience for me. It’s a style of music which produces, quite deliberately, a profound sense of nostalgia. But what is nostalgia all about?
I strongly believe that emotions are much more than merely feelings. An emotional experience, I believe, contains a set of information about both who we are and what the world is about.
For…
Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception
A review and exploration.The brain, Aldous Huxley asserts, is like a reducing valve, filtering out great masses of unnecessary experiences, creating a unified, simple experience of the world. Although Huxley’s Doors of Perception is based around his experience of the consumption of the psychedelic drug mescaline, the wealth of wisdom within the book stretches far beyond that of speculation…
The things you enjoy, your emotions, and who you are- why some emotions persist and others do not
Why is it that when you listen to a piece of music, you feel a deep emotional connection to that piece of music, but as soon as the next piece of music comes on, your previous emotions are all but forgotten, replaced with the feelings the new piece of music induces? This may seem like an uncontroversial point, you may argue that that this is merely the nature of our experience of mediums like…
The Nature and Ethics of Enjoyment in Modern Society
Recently there has been a lot of controversy in the UK over The Jeremy Kyle Show, after the sad news of a reported suicide of the of a guest who took part in its recording. Discussions of this show should function as a metonym from which we can extrapolate discourse to all shows of this nature. As Amol Rajan rightly asks
“…is it right to allow private trauma to become public spectacle? And is the…
Society- the conscious mind’s push to evolve the subconscious?
Our unconscious urges and imagination are the driving forces of our overall nature, but when we confront them, they can seem completely strange to us. The unmitigated primal quality behind the social self seems uncivilised and uncultivated. Our higher self must indeed have a profound part to play in channelling our raw nature into the nature we know and experience.
J G Ballard’s book The…
Rainy. Time for tea.
Forever one of my all time favourite books, which really sums up my personality and obsessions. Sometimes I get pretty terrified at how more and more there are glimpses of that science fiction dystopia in our current societies.
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“La experiencia no es lo que te sucede, sino lo que haces con lo de te sucede”.
— Aldous Huxley.
Celebrated composer, Laurence Rosenthal recounts his experience with LSD in our summer issue: THE WILD:
I had known about drugs given to novices in mystical schools of the East at the beginning of their training, for the purpose of providing a confirming glimpse of the kind of state they might one day reach through their own inner work. In fact it was a motive related to this idea that led me to try LSD. And now the mounting magnificence of the hours, growing constantly more radiant, finally melted all resistance.
To read the entire essay, click here.
Photograph by Josep Molina Secall
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“Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”—Aldous Huxley (b. 26 July 1894)
Antic Hay
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Only truth can set us free, but first it will piss you off. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”▼
~ Aldous Huxley & Joe Klaas & George Orwell
The only enemy in this world is: power and money! The system spins - because each of you wants it. Meanwhile… only one day of inactivity in the whole world … without firing a single shot, any bloodshed, is able to overthrow the System-elite. ONE DAY! Just stop, whatever you do in life! After a month …. priests, kings and politicians will kneel before you.
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Another Bernard doodle
Kinda venty, Im just projecting it onto him
Here have a doodle of a suffering boy uwu
His name is Bernard and he comes from a book called Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (really good dystopian novel, recommend highly)and i doodled him. A lot.
11/29 (Additional) Book Deals
Good morning, everyone! I hope your week is off to a wonderful start! :)
Apologies for not posting more last week, I was trying to take some time off of the internet and decompress a bit before diving into what is sure to be a rather stressful month. Last week also marked the 15 year anniversary of my dad’s death, so that’s always a weird time for me, as well. I’d love to hear how you all are doing! How’s life? Can you believe it’s already almost December?? How’s your weather?? We’re still getting warm weather here off and on, go figure.
In regard to the books (which is why we’re all here), there are a ton on sale, so seems like an awesome time to stock up on both new and backlist releases for really great prices if you need to get some more books to read! Also, I will link to and repost my deals post from last week because I’m pretty sure those are also still on sale, so lots of options. :) The Book of Koli is one I always recommend, and I’ve really enjoyed books by H.G. Parry! Also, I haven’t read them, but the entire Cursebreaker series (A Curse so Dark and Lonely, etc.) is on sale as a bundle, so if you’ve been wanting to read that it seems like a really good deal! There are just basically a lot of awesome books available to choose from, including some super new releases, as well as some really popular backlist titles (like The Fifth Season!), so definitely have a look. :)
Anyway, I hope you all have a truly wonderful day, and happy reading to all!
Today’s Deals:
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- The Rose Code by Kate Quinn- https://amzn.to/3E8hpi2
- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris - https://amzn.to/3d24VfH
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin- https://amzn.to/2ZxzOFI
- New Spring by Robert Jordan- https://amzn.to/3xzk01L
- The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline- https://amzn.to/3o2qMKo
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- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict- https://amzn.to/3FVhEgL
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams- https://amzn.to/3D3jWsu
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell- https://amzn.to/3D2gL4g
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari- https://amzn.to/3xDhism
- The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer- https://amzn.to/3FYoEta
- Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney- https://amzn.to/3FWGOeT
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler- https://amzn.to/3d1pA3K
- Snowby John Banville- https://amzn.to/2ZAvOEt
- The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers- https://amzn.to/3FViDgX
- The Best of Me by David Sedaris- https://amzn.to/3I2M8z8
- Life, Unscheduled by Kristin Rockaway- https://amzn.to/3xB2URh
- Island Queen by Vanessa Riley- https://amzn.to/3xy3rU7
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- The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, PIracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean - https://amzn.to/3D5qBCr
- Outlawed by Anna North- https://amzn.to/3pdyAZ2
- Capture the Crown by Jennifer Estep- https://amzn.to/3cXYNFt
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- Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson- https://amzn.to/3lisHJ9
- A Happy Catastrophe by Maddie Dawson- https://amzn.to/31acSgE
- The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi- https://amzn.to/3E5Thwo
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- Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester- https://amzn.to/3rkPnfI
- Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain- https://amzn.to/3E5qxns
- The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey - https://amzn.to/31aLdMa
- A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry - https://amzn.to/3o3BWi8
- The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley- https://amzn.to/3lkP5Br
- The Rehearsals by Annette Christie- https://amzn.to/3cWj3r0
- A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan- https://amzn.to/3o3n2Zd
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley- https://amzn.to/3p7Oog1
- Snare (Reykjavik Noir Trilogy) by Lilja Sigurdardottir- https://amzn.to/32JWB2s
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- The Cursebreaker Series (all three books!) by Brigid Kemmerer - https://amzn.to/3liOiRM
- Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze- https://amzn.to/2ZyTUPY
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli- https://amzn.to/316a44i
- The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky - https://amzn.to/3DguOU1
- You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar- https://amzn.to/3p4VIJg
- Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler- https://amzn.to/3E7hH8y
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“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Friends saw a different Huxley than critics did. To Sybille Bedford, Aldous was a man transformed; he had developed a godlike assurance, a serenity. He gave a sense of peace and a natural sweetness mixed with an Olympian calm: a saint without the unctuousness. Huxley’s evolution from an agitated pacifist to a calm, clear-minded mystic—[D.H.] Lawrence would have enjoyed this—was noticed by others. When Cyril Connolly interviewed Huxley for Picture Post, he remarked, “What is much more remarkable … is the radiance of serenity and loving-kindness on his features; one no longer feels ‘what a clever man’ but ‘what a good man,’ a man at peace with himself.”
David King Dunaway, Huxley in Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 1989)
Aldous Huxley Wearing A Three-piece Suit
Photographer: Charles Sheeler
Vanity Fair, April 1st, 1927
