Sunday, February 15, 2015

Aldous Huxley

A Biography Here

So I read a biography from IMBd
I like the short fun facts so I'm going to give those

  • height: 6 foot 4.5 inches, tall dude 
  • his family had several successful members in various fields of literature and science
  • he turned down knighthood
  • it said that his book Island inspired the psychedelic culture of the '60s
  • he was involved in experimental drug use for his friend's research and wrote about the experiences in The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
  • his death was pretty sad that it got overshadowed by JFK's assassination 
  • he wrote the original screenplay for Disney's Alice in Wonderland, which is very believable  
These are a bunch of quotes by him HERE

In class notes

  • originally British- Santa Monica
  • "All science begins with science-fiction" not by him though
  • reality distortion field
  • all predictions are imaginative
  • saw lack of curiosity/ comfort needy

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