Every year, another generation of young students gets that sense of him from Brave New World, the 1932 novel that’s become assigned reading for millions of middle schoolers. The largeness of the man and the precision of his language continue to live more than a half a century after his death. He talked in silver sentences, treating conversation as a form of theater, or even literature. Huxley spoke like Laurence Olivier-with exacting British diction and an unerring verbal accuracy that few people, then or now, possess in casual conversation. His voice, preserved in recordings easily sampled online, was also part of his charm. the head of an angel drawn by William Blake.” Anita Loos, the American screenwriter, playwright, and author, was impressed by Huxley’s “physical beauty. In pictures, Huxley looks imposing, but far from ugly. Shortly before his death, Huxley confided to a friend that his childhood nickname had been “Ogie,” a substitute for “Ogre.”īut this seems like the kind of exaggeration children so often use to rib each other. “During his first years his head was proportionately enormous, so that he could not walk until he was two because he was apt to topple over,” writes biographer Sybille Bedford.
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