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To: Clutch Martin
[WIKI] “Soma, featured in Aldous Huxley’s novels Brave New World and Island, a fictional hallucinogenic drug to keep society peaceful and happy.”

Thanks for that wiki reference, because it's not like anyone who ever went to junior high or high school in the United States in the past 50 years is unfamiliar with Huxley's work.

29 posted on 10/17/2018 6:09:39 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

“...it’s not like anyone who ever went to junior high or high school in the United States in the past 50 years is unfamiliar with Huxley’s work.”

Dunno, my grands haven’t read squat, but all received pretty good grades. I interrogate them all the time, the standards & classics are rarely used. They have never read Faulkner, Hemingway, Byran, Joyce, Steinbeck, Williams, Cooper, Orwell, Huxley etc... Maybe that’s reserved for college lit.


60 posted on 10/17/2018 6:50:05 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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