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Aldous Huxley

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Category:	Cultures and Community
Created:	Nov 12, 2004
Type:	Public
Members:	178
Owner:	Alma
Language:	English
Country:	United States of America

The Doors of Perception
link: www.huxley.net/

about GOD

"It is not necessary to understand; it is enough to adore. The god may be of clay: adore him; he becomes GOD. We ingnore what created us; we adore what we create.Let us create nothing but GOD!
That which causes us to create is our father and mother ;we create in our own image, which is theirs.
Let us create therefore without fear;for we can create nothing that is not GOD."

Huxley produced 47 books in his long career as a writer. The English critic Anthony Burgess has said that he equipped the novel with a brain. Other critics objected that he was a better essayist than novelist precisely because he cared more about his ideas than about plot or characters, and his novels' ideas often get in the way of the story. But Huxley's emphasis on ideas and his skin as an essayist cannot hide one important fact: The books he wrote that are most read and best remembered today are all novels--Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, and Point Counter Point from the 1920s, Brave New World and After Many a Summer Dies the Swan from the 1930s. In 1959 the American Academy of Arts and Letters gave him the Award of Merit for the Novel, a prize given every five years; earlier recipients had been Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Mann, and Theodore Dreiser. The range of Huxley's interests can be seen from his note that his "preliminary research" for Island included "Greek history, Polynesian anthropology, translations from Sanskrit and Chinese of Buddhist texts, scientific papers on pharmacology, neurophysiology, psychology and education, together with novels, poems, critical essays, travel books, political commentaries and conversations with all kinds of people, from philosophers to actresses, from patients in mental hospitals to tycoons in Rolls-Royces...." He used similar, though probably fewer, sources for Brave New World.