Monday's malarkey

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....my errand done.....and Jan should return shortly from her errands......

..Chinese tonight?.......HMMmmmm......

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[wsantia1]

The full version at Woodstock. Listen to the famous drum solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dTH32ClRwI

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...yup....thanks....

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I didn't know this..?


Personal life

Huxley married Maria Nys (10 September 1899 ? 12 February 1955), a Belgian he met at Garsington, Oxfordshire, in 1919. They had one child, Matthew Huxley (19 April 1920 ? 10 February 2005), who had a career as an author, anthropologist, and prominent epidemiologist.[46] In 1955, Maria died of cancer.[19]

In 1956, Huxley married Laura Archera (1911?2007), also an author as well as a violinist and psychotherapist.[19] She wrote This Timeless Moment, a biography of Huxley. Laura felt inspired to illuminate the story of their marriage through Mary Ann Braubach's 2010 documentary, "Huxley on Huxley".[47]

In 1960, Huxley was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and, in the years that followed, with his health deteriorating, he wrote the Utopian novel Island,[48] and gave lectures on "Human Potentialities" both at the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center and at the Esalen Institute. These lectures were fundamental to the beginning of the Human Potential Movement.[49]

Huxley was a close friend of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Rosalind Rajagopal and was involved in the creation of the Happy Valley School (now Besant Hill School of Happy Valley) in Ojai, California.

The most substantial collection of Huxley's few remaining papers (following the destruction of most in a fire) is at the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.[50] Some are also at the Stanford University Libraries.[51]

On 9 April 1962, Huxley was informed he was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature, the senior literary organisation in Britain, and he accepted the title via letter on 28 April 1962.[52] The correspondence between Huxley and the society are kept at the Cambridge University Library.[52] The society invited Huxley to appear at a banquet and give a lecture at Somerset House, London in June 1963. Huxley wrote a draft of the speech he intended to give at the society; however, his deteriorating health meant he would not be able to attend.[52]
Death

On his deathbed, unable to speak due to advanced laryngeal cancer, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 ?g, intramuscular". According to her account of his death[53] in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 a.m. and a second dose an hour later; Huxley died aged 69, at 5:20 p.m. (Los Angeles time), on 22 November 1963.[54]

Media coverage of Huxley's passing ? as with that of the author C. S. Lewis ? was overshadowed by the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on the same day.[55] This coincidence served as the basis for Peter Kreeft's book Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley, which imagines a conversation among the three men taking place in Purgatory following their deaths.[56]

Huxley's memorial service took place in London in December 1963 which was led by his older brother Julian, and on 27 October 1971[57] his ashes were interred in the family grave at the Watts Cemetery, home of the Watts Mortuary Chapel in Compton, Guildford, Surrey, England.[58]

Huxley had been a long-time friend of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, who later dedicated his last orchestral composition to Huxley. Stravinsky began Variations in Santa F?, New Mexico, in July 1963, and completed the composition in Hollywood on 28 October 1964. It was first performed in Chicago on 17 April 1965, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Craft.[59][60]

[Ron Sower]

Brave New World....on the reading list 1965 in Miss Williams' Literature class....William Fleming High School...