The Door's Perception - Aean the Doors of Perception

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Uki: There's just a different side to huxley that kenne comes out for me when i read this brief essay. I think it was very genuine what he was describing, you know, describing how he looked down at the fabric of his genes and took me intoi and saw it in a radically different light. Uki: He did indeed communicate with people all over the world and with other people. But he was also, rather curiously, quite a i think he lived quite a quiet life, in a sense. You might have thought they were the last two people to click, but they did.

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, five collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.

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