Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of July 26th
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It is the 207th day of the year, leaving 158 days remaining in 2022.
He told his stories in a satirical voice, harshly questioning the literary pretentions of the days. Before he was 40, he had written one of the great dystopian novels in the English language, Brave New World, still considered among the best of its genre.
Huxley was born in England but moved to the United States in 1937, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He was a prolific writer of novels and non-fiction, a poet, a philosopher, a mystic, and considered one of the great intellectual theories of his time.
Through it all, though, he is best known for Brave New World. Published in 1932, it climaxed Huxley's early writing period, in which he used satire to question the direction of political, social, and scientific changes. It was a prescient novel, foretelling methods that could be used to control people and their actions.
It presented a future world in which humans were bred for certain intellectual levels, and thus should be remarkably content with their lot in life. Objections by those who wanted a different future were quashed with entertainment, sex, and drugs -- a satiating gas dubbed soma was sprayed into the air at demonstrations or other outbreaks, ending discontent.
Even today, the novel is compared to various dictatorships and governments throughout the world, who use similar methods to distract people who criticize or object to their methods.
His next novel, Eyeless in Gaza, went in a different direction, showcasing Huxley's growing interest in mysticism and Eastern philosophy.
He died in 1963 in Los Angeles.
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