The Review of Contemporary Fiction, September 22nd, 2005
He thought of the millions who had been and were still being slaughtered ... he thought of their pain, all the countless separate pains of them; pain incommunicable, individual, beyond the reach of sympathy ... pain without sense or object, bringing with it no hope and no redemption, futile, unnecessary, stupid. In one supreme apocalyptic moment he saw, he felt the universe in all its horror.
--Aldous Huxley,
"Farcical History of Richard Greenow" (109)
I have frequently been accused, by reviewers in public and by unprofessional readers in private correspondence, both of vulgarity and wick...
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