Posted on 11/22/2019 9:55:16 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Do you remember what you were doing the day Aldous Huxley died? Or C.S. Lewis? You don’t think so? Well, the odds are that if you were old enough to be laying down memories at the time, you do. Because it was also the day President Kennedy was assassinated.
There’s no evidence that Huxley read Lewis, or that Kennedy read either—though his wife Jackie would certainly have read some of their books—but Lewis knew enough of Huxley to mention him in a letter of 1952 as an author of a future dystopia alongside H.G. Wells and George Orwell. The mental worlds inhabited by Kennedy, Lewis and Huxley—an Englishman translated permanently to West Coast America from 1938—were as mutually remote as their social worlds. Yet each devoted his energies to matters of universal concern, and together they form a curious triptych on the mortal condition...
The distinctions between the three men’s worldviews inspired a 1982 fiction, Between Heaven and Hell by Boston College philosophy professor Peter Kreeft...
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
One of those thought fantasies I have. All three meeting their maker at the same time. I cannot imagine a more diverse response to their presentation at the throne.
Just a thought:
C.S. Lewis bends the knee,
Aldous Huxley exclaims that this is impossible, he KNOWs there is no God.
JFK looks a little bewildered and asks if that was a “shot” he heard?
The one I would have liked to meet the most was CS Lewis.
No one remembers it was my 4th birthday.
It sounds like the start of a good joke.
“JFK, Aldous Huxley, and CS Lewis all die on the same day and they’re waiting outside the pearly gates...”
>C.S. Lewis bends the knee,
Aldous Huxley exclaims that this is impossible, he KNOWs there is no God.
JFK looks a little bewildered and asks if that was a “shot” he heard?<<
I was trying not to LOL, but that was freaking hilarious.
Further proof that smoking kills.
JFK in Trauma Room One: The Missing Piece: Last Moments Before Death
Nov 20, 2013
Christie Jenkins
Chief of Anesthesiology Dr. M. T. Pepper Jenkins led the team to resuscitate President Kennedy at Parkland Hospital, Nov. 22, 1963.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX58vrL5ZiA
Although I suppose the medical team had to try resuscitation, in reality Kennedy was dead the moment the bullet literally blew a portion of his brains out. Some autonomic body functions continued for awhile because the wound did not affect the lower parts of the brain, but even in our time of advanced medicine, no one could survive that damage to the head.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Happy Birthday.
Quite. But those who were there worked anyway, until they took a good look. Jackie crawled out onto the rear of the car and grabbed the ejected brain tissue, almost fell off when the driver hit the gas.
The man has a way with words. Upon the recommendations of several FReepers, I am currently reading Mere Christianity.
It's well worth it, and I'm sorry I waited until I was 50 to read it. Of course, at 20, I wouldn't have wanted to read it.
Aldous Huxley exclaims that this is impossible, he KNOWs there is no God.You may be confusing Aldous with his brother Julian.
Julian was the big evolution apologist, Aldous was the novelist and mescaline guru.
Happy 56th!
Or Benjamin Britten's 50th...
56 + 4 TY
Duh !! Happy 60th. :)
Satan wanted Lewis’s death to go unnoticed, and God permitted it—because He already had Walter Hooper teed up.
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