Huxley/Speaking Personally

+++'''Speaking Personally...'''+++,, new page here.

~~recorded 1961 by Dennis Preston from Lansdowne Recording Studios~~

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"The interview took place in the London summer-two long afternoons, punctuated by tea and sherry, in Aldous's sitting-room with the view of the trees in Ennismore Gardens. The range of subjects was very wide. Aldous, as the case might be, responded to his interviewer, side-stepped or expanded. The great point of it all is that it has left us with such a characteristic record not only of Aldous's thought but of Aldous's way of expressing it; more spontaneous, more informal than his writing, more informal still than his lectures and broadcasts - there was no time limit, no audience... This record comes as near as anything to the way Aldous talked to his friends. This was his conversation."

]]] ~~Sybille Bedford, from '''Aldous Huxley, A Biography - Volume 2'''~~ ]]]

*[http://praxis.bluesphereweb.com/HUXLEY_interview_1.MP3 Part One]

**I started writing...

**Why wouldn't you have been good in medical practice?

**How did you come to publish?

**Was your defect of eyesight a great handicap?

**Are there writers who will survive and be read?

**What is the relationship of the artist to his time?

**How serious is the impact on your mind of Freud?

**Victorian social consciousness - mummy of Jeremy Bentham

**Won't you say something about DH Lawrence?

*[http://praxis.bluesphereweb.com/HUXLEY_interview_2.MP3 Part Two]

**Would you say something about the process that took you to unorthodox religion?

**Surely zen is inward turning?

**What part has the supernatural in your life?

**Symbols

**Mysticism hinges upon superstition?

**The Devils of Loudon

**Why did you settle in California?

**How often have you taken mescaline yourself?

]]] via [http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_014/huxley.htm Grey Lodge Occult Review: Issue 14] ]]]

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