Antic Hay

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Chatto & Windus, 1926 - 326 páginas

"Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkles and softens the body while it still lives, rots it like a medlar, kills it too at last."

-Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay (1923)


Antic Hay (1923) is one of Aldous Huxley's early novels and takes a satirical look at post-World War I London. The author pokes at the stuffy British society of the time and the protagonist, Theodore Gumbril's struggle for approval amidst gossipy, bohemian characters. Gumbril even goes so far as to disguise himself in order to overcome his shyness. Deemed immoral by some because of its discussion of sex, the book has been banned and burned. Readers who are fans of Huxley's work and thought-provoking satire will enjoy this comedic tale set in the early twentieth century.

 

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Página 8 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Página 7 - And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, and houses full of all good things. which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not...
Página 70 - Does it occur to you," he went on, "that at this moment we are walking through the midst of seven million distinct and separate individuals, each with distinct and separate lives and all completely indifferent to our existence ? Seven million people, each one of whom thinks himself quite as important as each of us does.
Página 276 - Amor dunque non ha, né tua beltate o durezza o fortuna o gran disdegno del mio mal colpa, o mio destino o sorte; se dentro del tuo cor morte e pietate porti in un tempo, e che '1 mio basso ingegno non sappia, ardendo, trame altro che morte.
Página 12 - But as soon as they perceived him to be a Jew, all with one voice, for the space of about two hours, cried out : Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Página 158 - And since there are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism, they rush out to buy four new pairs of spectacles.
Página 189 - It re-establishes itself, an inward quiet, like this outward quiet of grass and trees. It fills one, it grows — a crystal quiet, a growing, expanding crystal. It grows, it becomes more perfect; it is beautiful and terrifying, yes, terrifying as well as beautiful. For one's alone in the crystal and there's no support from outside, there's nothing external and important, nothing external and trivial to pull oneself up by or to stand on, superiorly, contemptuously, so that one can look down.
Página 58 - You disgust me — you and your odious little sham eighteenth-century civilization; your piddling little poetry; your art for art's sake instead of for God's sake; your nauseating little copulations without love or passion; your hoggish materialism; your bestial indifference to all that's unhappy and your yelping hatred of all that's great.
Página 188 - But we build bandstands and factories on them. Deliberately — to put a stop to the quietness. We don't like the quietness.
Página 213 - The music had shifted from F major to D minor ; it mounted in leaping anapaests to a suspended chord, ran down again, mounted once more, modulating to C minor, then, through a passage of trembling notes to A flat major, to the dominant of D flat, to the dominant of C, to C minor, and at last, to a new clear theme in the major. " Then I'm sorry for you," said Gumbril, allowing his fingers to play on by themselves.

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ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963) was an English-born author and intellectual known for his satires, in particular, his prophetic Brave New World (1932). His influential writing includes more than fifty novels, as well as poetry, nonfiction, and screenplays. He moved to Hollywood in 1937 to focus on screenwriting and lived there until his death.

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