1. 21 Nov


    Leisure (1910). William Worchester Churchill. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.” — Aldous Huxley 

    Leisure (1910). William Worchester Churchill. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

    “Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.” — Aldous Huxley 

     

  2. 9 Jul


    Brave New World (1932). Aldous Huxley (1884-1963). London: Chatto & Windus. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. First edition. “Community, Identity, Stability” is the motto of the utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a “Feelie,” a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, something is missing. “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

    Brave New World (1932). Aldous Huxley (1884-1963). London: Chatto & Windus. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. First edition.

    “Community, Identity, Stability” is the motto of the utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a “Feelie,” a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, something is missing.

    “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

     

  3. 24 Jun


    Big City Thrills. The New Yorker. Cover June 11-18, 2007. Adrian Tomine (1972-). A woman reads on a sightseeing bus. Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment…. The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. — Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

    Big City Thrills. The New Yorker. Cover June 11-18, 2007. Adrian Tomine (1972-).

    A woman reads on a sightseeing bus.

    Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment…. The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. — Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)