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Do people wind up in (what we would call) hospital in BNW, or do they get given an overdose* of soma while the next one gets decanted?

* compare George V's last moments (time, manner, and place; especially time) I'd call it an influence, except it happened 4 years after BNW was published.

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I hadn't read Island but I'd like to imagine those kin of Hugin/Munin are cyborg MDs :)

>Farnaby awakens on the island with a leg injury, hearing a myna bird screaming "Attention"

Here Aldous seems to have gone beyond merely reacting to neoEdwardism..

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Huh, found it at https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-island/huxleya-island-00...

So far reminding me a bit (in backstory) of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twenty-One_Balloons

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Grateful for the refs (incl. the aristotelian epigraph, the newbery)

>Will remembered suddenly his favourite worst line of poetry.

https://harpers.org/2009/10/arnolds-to-a-friend/

>The up-beat high Victorian view of art as a cure to the woes of society

https://harpers.org/2009/10/forster-what-the-great-minds-tel...

地獄楽 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Paradise:_Jigokuraku

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Did the Victorians and the Soviets both believe that time/access was the only thing keeping the proletariat from being as enthused about Art as their "betters"?

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185423 (and Katya's sports car, accessorised with radio and small dog)

Huxley called "habitus" well before Bourdieu: Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes.

EDIT: "Hell — is other people" (JPS) "...whose interests aren't aligned [being] thrown into an enclosed space and forced to work together." (YK)

Unless there are any immortals (we saw a one-tail fox this morning) on HN, we're also all (along with several deer yesterday) sentenced to death ... although some of us pledge (logically if foolishly) to seek the Elixir of Life, or die trying.

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>"habitus"

You're egging (ikigaing) me on to find the countermanding quote in Island