Aldous Huxley

1. Disney rejected Huxley’s screen play of Alice in Wonderland—there were simply too many big words. However, the final portrayal of the hookah-smoking caterpillar is supposedly a nod to Huxley.

2. Huxley’s eyesight problems drove him to give up his dreams of being a scientist and instead begin a writing career. He was practically blind for a few years as a teenager.

3. At Huxley’s request, his wife Laura administered LSD to her husband a few hours before he died.

4. He was born to an upper family and his father was a biographer, editor, and poet. Later in 1937, Huxley traveled to the U.S.A with the belief that the Californian climate would aid in improving his eye-sight, which was being a major burden. This also proved to be the turning point in his life, because Huxley gave up on writing fiction and chose essays as the tool for expressing his ideas. 

5. Failure to achieve academic distinction might be a disappointment for an ordinary person, but to be a Huxley was to be aware that one is not ordinary,

6. Much of the literature he created reflected a concern with physical suffering, malignant disease, decay, and death

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