A number of Anglophone writers thought November 22 might be a good day to die…
Aldous Huxley, English prose writer whose output ranged from philosophical novels to dystopian (Brave New World) and utopian (Island) fiction (with a number of book-length essays about drugs and meditation thrown in for good measure…) - died this day in 1963 from cancer (age 69), high on the dose of LSD which he had requested his wife inject him with as he was slipping away…
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Photo: Ottoline Morrell, 1917 (NPG, London)