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"Aldous Huxley" Photographed by g. Paul Bishop, '60
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©2019 G. Paul Bishop, Jr.
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Aldous Huxley
(Aldous Leonard Huxley)
1904 - 1963
Writer
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Aldous Huxley was here for an endowed chair when this was taken.
The powers that be on campus were very worried about his health,
because he just wasn't eating. His beautiful hands are just skin
and bones, and his clothes could hold another person. He had
slipped into an intellectual trance and was fading away. He
wasn't even bothering with his laundry. So the University paid a
student to live with him and take care of him. I was ecstatic
about having the opportunity to do his portrait. During the
sitting he began talking about a book he had just finished, the
180 degrees counterpart of Brave New World. We spent a
wonderful afternoon talking about what an utopian culture would
really be like, and he said that the only thing he had left to
do was to choose a title for the book. The tragedy is that his
house in Westwood later burned, and the only copies of his
completed manuscript were destroyed. He had to be physically
restrained from trying to rescue them.
g. Paul Bishop
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