Thursday, February 14, 2008

Aldous Huxley Biography

Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey England. His early child hood he was taught by his mother but she died of a terminal illness when he was only fourteen. Non the less he continued his education at Eton college. He studied English literature and eventually studied the subject at Balliol college. This was his completion of his education and the beginning his life. Since a young age he has had terrible eye sight, nearly going blind from a genetic disease.

To begin his living he began teaching at Eton College and even taught George Orwell the future author of the famous novel “1984.” Some of his students thought he was a hopeless case as a teacher, but most of his students commented that his speeches were very well thought out and spoken. During world war one Huxley spent his time as a farm laborer on Lady Ottoline Morrell. During this period he married his wife, Maria Nijis in 1919.

Huxley made strong point about this use of these substances within their respective cultures. They offer a person the ability to comprehend and translate the meaning of things they had not before taken the time to decipher. This is true of many people any where in the world. Do these people try to lable things in one specific cold case order? No, instead they look for multiple meanings in the things that a sober person would find uninteresting and entirely unimportant. To a user of any mind altering drugs the concept of keeping a concept written in stone and only for that stone (or matter of discussion of labeling) seems almost like copywriting a concept that has a copy right law on multiple trendy items that a culture misinterprets nearly every day in their life.

3 comments:

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