‘And then there is the sense that in spite of Everything – I suppose this is the Ultimate Mystical conviction – in spite of Pain, in spite of Death, in spite of Horror, the universe is in some way All Right, capital A, capital R. . .’
Aldous Huxley
Posted by: Philip Carr-Gomm | November 5, 2009
The Universe is in Some Way All Right
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Great quotation! Seems that I have been spending the last few years trying to write exactly what Aldous manages to portray in three lines……
By: lune on November 5, 2009
at 8:35 pm
Beautiful – reminds me of ‘American Beauty’ and how a simple plastic bag, dancing in the wind, can carry the same haunting and yet comforting message!
Can’t remember the exact wording of the character as he played his footage, but it was similar the heart of Huxley’s…
By: mark townsend on November 6, 2009
at 11:22 am