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11 set 2024 · Dated December 8, 1963, the letter addressed Julian and Juliette Huxley, his brother and sister-in-law. LSD had become a family affair. Laura took it with Aldous, and she learned how to inject him with painkillers when he grew ill.
5 set 2024 · As a conscientious objector doing farming as his alternative service during the First World War, Gerald worked at Garsington Manor near Oxford for most of 1916–1917. The future Juliette Huxley, who was working there as a French tutor, later reminisced: "In those days...
2 giorni fa · 26th September 1926. —Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. It is warm, misty and semi-autumnal, and lovely to look at, lovely to feel. Feel, smell, look at—one can do all three with this kind of day. It literally touches all one’s senses.
9 set 2024 · The future Juliette Huxley, who was working there as a French tutor, later reminisced that "In those days … I saw a good deal of Fredegond Shove, Gerald’s wife, who lived like a Spartan at the Bailiff’s Cottage”.
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13 set 2024 · Se George Orwell, infatti, aveva immaginato la fine dell’umanità per mano di un potere dittatoriale, il più lungimirante Aldous Huxley, con opere come «Il mondo nuovo», prevedeva la morte ...
2 giorni fa · Scritto nel 1932, "Il mondo nuovo" è un romanzo dall'inesausta forza profetica ambientato in un immaginario stato totalitario del futuro, nel quale ogni aspetto della vita viene pianificato in nome del razionalismo produttivistico e tutto è sacrificabile a un malinteso mito del progresso.
13 set 2024 · Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English writer best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World (1932). His works are notable for their wit and pessimistic satire and for their ongoing exploration of the negative and positive impacts of science and technology on 20th-century life.
