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Thursday, April 4, 2019

Daily Dose

From Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

IT WAS

"It was now the turn also for eyes and skin."

From Chapter 11

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Daily Dose


From Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

FAINT HUM

"With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement."

From Chapter 10

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Daily Dose


From The Kindness of Strangers, by Salka Viertel

AT DINNER

"At dinner the young people kept silent, while Aldous talked about cheese."

From Chapter 36

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Daily Dose


From Chrome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley

IT WAS

"It was two hours cut clean out of his life; two hours in which he might have done so much, so much -- written the perfect poem, for example, or read the one illuminating book."

From Chapter 1

Friday, June 14, 2013

Daily Dose

From Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley

SHE LAUGHED

"She laughed on a descending chromatic scale.  This was excitingly new."

From Chapter IX

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Daily Dose

From Eyeless in Gaza, by Aldous Huxley

SHOULD BE

“He had written of the world in general as though the world in general were like himself -- from the desire, of course, that it should be.”

Friday, May 15, 2009

Daily Dose

From Eyeless in Gaza, by Aldous Huxley

SO MANY

“Life was so short, and books so countless many.”