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Re: A Brave New World
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:50:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jason J. Railton writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kirby Warden writes:
> > I wonder how many people here have read Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World*.
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> Nope, not me. American, was he?
45 seconds of Googling gave:
http://www.primenet.com/~matthew/huxley/huxbio.html
Born in the UK, went to Eton and Oxford. Wrote BNW in 1931. Moved to the US
in 1937.
So, no, sorry, not American.
BNW is no longer required reading in English schools? It's still a fresh and
interesting read (and jumped out at me as having been authored by a Brit the
first time I read it, lo these many years ago, even without the variant
spellings that gave it away as non US). Give it a go.
I'll snip the rest because I have no opinion.
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| (...) He didn't appear to have any particularly heartfelt national allegiance from that bio. Now, I'm fairly sure I know what you mean by 'Googling', but somehow the expression still worries me. :-)* (...) I might well do. There wasn't much (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Nope, not me. American, was he? (...) Personally, I think this one does some good. There's serious discussion about this in the UK now, to replace the firearms of our armed police units. So long as this is still the exception rather than (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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