The genius and the goddess
The Genius and the Goddess (1955) is a novel by Aldous Huxley. It was published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and by Harper & Row in the US. It is the fictional account of John Rivers, a student physicist in the 1920s who was hired out of college as a laboratory assistant to Henry Maartens.
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- You are most welcome. Personally I found the genius and the goddess made the greatest change in my perspective. Obviously I can't say it will have the same effect on you; however I've found that many of his writings are very thought provoking so perhaps just pick a few at random :).
I wish you the very best and I'll leave you with a quote from the man himself:
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
- "The Genius and the Goddess" by Aldous Huxley. It's one of his lesser known works and also quite short (128 pp).
I really like Huxleys way of waving thoughts on psychology and philosophy into a story and specially liked it in this novel.
