I Think It Was a Little Bit Too Earnest, in My View

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Huxley was a proto green and felt the biver, you know, he would have indorsed all the ideas about or the damage that we're doing to the planet. In ireland, i think it was his attempt try and paint a picture of a positive utopia. He agreed that you could pop a pill and sort of get a glimpse through the window, but you couldn't popped a pill and just become enlightened. It's not a book that really excites me as much as his other stuff - probably for that reason.

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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