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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Collection proves Huxley is an essayist, not a novelist.,
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This review is from: On Art and Artists (Textbook Binding)
Huxley's preface to this collection of essays contains the only necessary clue on how to read him.
He says "Music can say four or five things at the same time, and can say them in such a way that the different things will combine into one thing. . . . We can see more than one thing at a time, and we can hear more than one thing at a time. But unfortunately we cannot read more than one thing at a time."
Huxley's novels all fail because he tried to compose verbal symphonies, while simultaneously in possession of the facts set forth above, making such symphonies impossibly disharmonious.
His essays are more like chamber music. Huxley leads the quartet, quintet or sextet of ideas in such a way that at times there are four, five or six harmonizing beautifully and at the same time, so long as you can follow.
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On art and artists by A. L. Huxley (Hardcover - 1969)
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