Final Essay: Aldous Huxley

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite" (pg one,William Blake)

I used the quote above simply because I like it. William Blake wrote that quote on Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception. Its a rather interesting quote, and i thought I'd use it.
As i was reading about Aldous Huxley's life, i saw and interesting fact. He died on the same day as John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Now i think that's a rather big thing. They actually probably meet in the world beyond this life. Where ever or what ever that is. Maybe they shared a "psychedelic" moment together. Or maybe it was just Aldous Huxley himself. He meaning Huxley, actually invented that word psychedelic. While reading his biography Nicholas Murray calls him the"most intriguing and complex figures of twentieth-century english writing---novelist, poet, biographer, philosopher, social and political thinker. In an era of intense specialization he remained a free-ranging thinker, unconfined by conventional categories, concerned to communicate his insights in ordinary language---a very english intellectual." (prologue, Murray). While reading on I love the quote Huxley uses to describe what he feels about his life. "I have always felt a powerful craving for light." (1 Murray). He says that because he was born in the dark and gloomy weather of rain. He liked to experiment. Open his mind to things that you cant normally see with the naked eye. In other words he did drugs. He wrote the book "the doors of perception" about opening your mind to drugs, and let it take control. You'll see things you've never thought possible.
I also passed by a funny thing he said, that is now considered a quote.
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. " (Huxley)

Works Cited
Blake, William. "Doors Of Perception." 1954
Murray, Nicholas. "Aldous Huxley a Biography." 2003 Macmillan.
Huxley, Murray. "Aldous Huxley Quotes." 2003 Brainy quotes.

Exile/ Malcolm X

Exile...
While reading exile, i saw that Ohio was written out to say O-hi-o. I wondering to myself if that is suppose to be a pun of some kind. Or if it has any relevance at all. But through reading it, it seemed to be a hard time for the music genre rock. Legends were dying to drug related problems it seemed. Its also a look into the life of the rolling stones.That time in life seemed to be the time of confusion. In it Springsteen says that Villa Nellcote was the best time in his life. But the directions he gives you to get there wont do you any good. Once you got inside thought, it was covered in mirrors reflecting your reflection from all different angles. Later on in the prologue it talks about Anita's, Jagger's love interest. She was a very outspoken woman always looking for the inside "dope". She put Jagger on Nixon's enemy list. It also seemed that Keith didn't like the owner of a club and almost hit him but missed, and kept playing his gig. Keith later boards his plane to nice,Italy to go to his favorite place.

Malcolm X...
Malcolm X started out a drug abuser and user, also as a pimp. He was later convicted and sent to jail. In prison is where he found his voice. He met a man named Bimibi in jail, where he spoke with such profoundness that everyone would listen to him. He soon started reading all categories of books. Expanding his vocabulary, and began to become mentally alive. He was later transferred to a less violent prison where he would have debates on various things. He would most always try to work in racism in his speeches. He believed that all white people were evil. His religion and past experiences thought him to hate the white man, and revolt against them.