February 2011
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Armamentos, deuda universal y obsolescencia planificada; ésos son los tres...
– La Isla, Aldous Huxley (via sabro)
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Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the...
– Aldous Huxley, “The Doors of Perception” (via epsteinian)
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Post-Jungian perspectives on archetypes of... →
The archetypes of individuation, as proposed by C. G. Jung, have been challenged by post-Jungian writers. Persona, shadow, anima and self offer examples of these new approaches, and their use in the analysis of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Island highlight some cultural aspects of the novels.
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The Influences of Eastern Philosophies in Aldous... →
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Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
– Aldous Huxley, Eyeless In Gaza, 1936
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The Devils - Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His... →
October 2010
18 posts
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There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...
– Aldous Huxley (via cmongirl)
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There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...
– Aldous Huxley (via cmongirl)
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable...
– Aldous Huxley (via innovationandrisk)
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Working on the twelve or thirteen billion neurons of a human brain, language and...
– Aldous Huxley (via dowdyinsweatshirts)
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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to...
– Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point) (via nicolecutrone)
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There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the...
– Aldous Huxley (via myserendipities)
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get rich or die tryin' part 1
mi-lo-do:
In this experiment the subjects were one hundred and sixty-two patients who had just come out of surgery and were all in considerable pain. Whenever a patient asked for medication to relieve pain, he or she was given an injection, either of morphine or of distilled water. All the patients received injections of morphine and some of the placebo. About thirty per cent of the patients...
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And then I remembered a passage I had read in one of Suzuki’s essays. “What is...
– who?: pg. 19, The Doors of Perception