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Point Counter Point
Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer - themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic. First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as Huxley himself. A major work of the 20th century and a monument of literary modernism, this edition includes an introduction by acclaimed novelist Nicholas Mosley (author of Hopeful Monsters and the son of Sir Oswald Mosley). Along with Brave New World (written a few years later), Point Counter Point is Huxley's most concentrated attack on the scientific attitude and its effect on modern culture.
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Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley
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A fairly dense and not especially fun read, Aldous Huxley's prescience is the best thing about this book. He's examining reason vs passion exhaustively and astutely, but every time I put this book down it was hard to pick up again. Long on quotables, short on story.

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Again, this is from 1928..

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"Children are brought up so stupidly nowadays."

This book was published in 1928. Every generation always thinks the next is doomed.

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Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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