Category: Isherwood
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Aldous Huxley on Mescaline, Botticelli, Scissors
David King Dunaway’s biography of Aldous Huxley, Huxley in Hollywood (1991) touches on the history and difficulties of pacifism in the years leading up to World War II; Hollywood’s ingestion of fine writers for schlocky screenplays in the 1940s; Huxley’s blindness and subsequent obsession with metaphors of vision; his prescient awareness of ecological damage; how the horrors…
Lyra Kilston 