RKS Literature: Once Out of The Womb

“Out of the womb, we’re in an unfriendly world, in which our wishes aren’t anticipated, where we’re no longer magically omnipotent, where we don’t fit, where we’re not snugly at home. What’s to be done in this world? Either face out the reality, fight with it, resignedly or heroically accept to suffer or struggle. OrContinue reading “RKS Literature: Once Out of The Womb”

RKS Literature: Third and Fourth Rate Intellectuals (Aldous Huxley)

“Do you know what third-and fourth-rate intellectuals are? They’re professors of philology and organic chemistry at the minor universities, they’re founders and honorary presidents of the Nuneaton Poetry Society and the Baron’s Court Debating Society; they’re the people that organize and sedulously attend all those Conferences for promoting international goodwill and the spread of cultureContinue reading “RKS Literature: Third and Fourth Rate Intellectuals (Aldous Huxley)”