[BlackVeil]

You give a most convincing reading Ventana, and I disagree with you nopardons. (Also, you sound over the top when you try to plume yourself.) At the time when BNW appeared, many of Huxley's progressive friends thought that he had turned "reactionary." Like 1984, it represents a progressive writer having a serious rethink about socialism and social control.

Huxley is difficult to categorise, in political terms. But as early as Crome Yellow, his writings demonstrate an understanding of how the forward-thinkers of the inter-war era were implicitly more intolerant than their elders whom they wanted to displace.

[ventana]

Thanks, plus, I mean isn't the idea of art and the artist that they capture in their art a special understanding of the human condition in a given time beyond that of ordinary people,even of philosophers. That is, finally, what makes them artists, isn't it? Not to get too "pointy headed" about. V's wife.