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“... Edwin to move to London, Orage made him his assistant at the New Age. This led to his meeting Aldous Huxley, the Sitwells, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, Ezra Pound and other writers including the young Slovene Janko Lavrin, with whom Edwin would later edit the European Quarterly. Willa became headmistress of a part-time vocational school ...”

“... this tall, invertebrate figure (spectacles and ironic coke spoon around neck) who conjures up Aldous Huxley, another English intellectual who went AWOL in the Californian desert. I’m happy to sink into a reverie, to love that which is most alien. Which is how the book works, the effect it has. You don’t have to subscribe to the sponsor’s pitch ...”

“... all,” ’ and that the Sphere is allowed to bend another ‘coward’ proverb upon Noel Coward. Aldous Huxley (‘When Greek meets Greek ...’) here speaks of ‘the tug of bores’; and G.K. Chesterton, more searchingly, insists that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. An ‘old Cockney Russian proverb’ (1980) says that ‘The ...”

“... an inspiring manner is in some degree supported by the subsequent careers of pupils, who included Aldous Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, George Orwell, Cyril Connolly, Peter Fleming, John Bayley – a literary macédoine to which several other ingredients could be added. As it fell out, I had myself no dealings with Lyttelton at school, knowing him only by ...”

“... also the core of ecological thought which the anarchists and their allies, like Patrick Geddes and Aldous Huxley, so significantly anticipated. Inescapably present as well is the mountainscape and the life it shelters, the poet’s concrete world, and beyond it the world of thought, ‘beyond the mountains’ where old kings and old poets defend the last ...”

“... and drink nickel draft beers. As a flaneur at the café he ‘read everyone, from John Fante to Aldous Huxley to Lao-tzu. My favourite novel at the time was Charles Bukowski’s Post Office, about a down-and-out barfly – a bleak omen, in retrospect, of where my life would one day land.’ (The epigraph of Beautiful Things is a few lines from ...”

“... weirdly high double-basses and twangy mandolin in Agon, or the 12 solo violins in the orchestral Aldous Huxley Variations, which (as Stravinsky suggested) are like ‘the sprinkling of very fine broken glass’, one is astonished by his command of extraordinary new sound. What one notices above all in his work is its joyous self-certitude. (In Craft’s ...”

“... place of pilgrimage’ – or if he did he was disappointed. The disdain of the highbrows for what Aldous Huxley, who liked Coward in person, referred to as a talent ‘out of the 6d box at Woolworths’, ‘an omelette without eggs’, bred in its object an understandable resentment. Waugh thought Coward agreeable enough but with ‘no ...”

“... to all sexual difficulties. At Bedales (in face of some official discouragement) Brooke first read Aldous Huxley, deciding he was himself a disillusioned Huxley character, though the requirements of that stance were not always easy to maintain at school. ‘The Huxlcian poison continued to circulate in my veins for the ...”

“... important’. A new sorting of the too many and the too few appeared during the Cold War, when Aldous Huxley warned of ‘overpopulation leading through unrest to [Communist] dictatorship’ and described the Cold War world as ‘Malthus’s nightmare come true’. His brother, the biologist Julian Huxley, wrote ...”

“... even thought of buying a seascape by him on a trip to France in 1923. (During this trip she cut Aldous Huxley and his wife, disgusted that they looked as if they had stepped out of the pages of Vogue.) When Duncan Grant had painted murals in Brunswick Square in 1912, he decorated Adrian Stephen’s drawing-room and Keynes’s massive room on the ground ...”

“... Cambodia approached the Utopian ‘ideal’ even more closely. That passage from Berdyaev which Aldous Huxley quoted as the epigraph to Brave New World daily sounds more convincing: Utopias now appear to be much more realisable than we had previously thought. We find ourselves nowadays confronted with a question quite agonising in a different way. How ...”

“... I would go into the book department, where I stumbled across a pile of canary yellow pamphlets by Aldous Huxley. One was called the ‘Encyclopedia of Pacifism’. Under the influence of these pamphlets I decided to leave the OTC. The master in charge of my section – who was famous for his evening prowls through the boys’ bathrooms, floating his hand ...”

“... Keats and Emerson but also, directly or indirectly, Virginia Woolf, Socrates, Diogenes, Spinoza, Aldous Huxley, Kierkegaard, Scott Fitzgerald, Proust, Kafka, Theodore Roethke and, repeatedly, Henry James. By coincidence, the theme that holds the novel together is introduced on the opening page through Frank’s powerful identification with a murder ...”

“... skin-foods, lotions, hair-preservers and hair removers, powders, paints, pastes and pills’, Aldous Huxley wrote in Vogue, that had yet to take off in poor Europe. Champcommunal wanted to capture some of this lifestyle, even if her readers couldn’t afford it. And like Todd, who returned to the helm in 1922, she was close to the Bloomsbury set, and ...”