Antic Hay
London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed—Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay. like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists—all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy. What the New York Times called “a delirium of sense enjoyment!”
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- As a person who read and enjoyed Crome Yellow and Antic Hay, I'm glad Huxley didn't care what his friends thought of it
- This wasn't the only novel of Huxley's that his acquaintances saw themselves in to their dismay. His Antic Hay has a brilliant scientist. Professor Shearwater, with a wife who cheats on him. Apparently Shearwater was an obvious representation of J.B.S. Haldane, who was not amused.
- Aldous Huxley wrote about this in Antic Hay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antic_Hay
- oh very nice. My machine doesn't have a `tail -r`, but it has `tac`, which I guess does the same thing.
I tweaked your output to put author first, to make sorting work better:
gives something like:curl -s https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | awk '/<title>/ {split($0,a,">");split(a[2],b,"<")} /<name>/{split($0,c,">");split(c[2],d,"<");print d[1]" - "b[1]}' | sortA. A. Milne - The Red House Mystery A. Merritt - The Moon Pool Aesop - Fables Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie - The Murder on the Links Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay ...
