Both essays are often seen as little more than an apologia for "drug experimentation." While that is certainly an element of both, it can hardly be taken as Huxley's central point. Remember Laurent Tailhade? Yeah, me neither.įrankly, with the state of Liberal Arts education today, I have a hard time believing that much of anyone who has read this in the last 30-40 years has understood but a fraction of it-and reading over the reviews I can find bears this out. At the very least, this book would benefit greatly from extensive illustration: the range of artistic works referenced, from Caravaggio to Millais to Vermeer, is sure to baffle most modern readers without a degree in Art History. Over the two months I spent on this volume, on and off, I believe two-thirds of my time was spent on the Internet looking up references. This was the first I've read in a long time where I found myself desperately longing, not only for an electronic edition, but for a fully hypertextual version, rich with links. Generally, I greatly prefer to read books in the dead-trees format-actual paper in my hand.
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