Water Drop Music

Water Drop Music

by (uk) Aldous Huxley

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The author of this book is world-famous for his "dystopian" masterpiece "Brave New World", which people have read and discussed intensely. Due to his family background and close sexual relationship, he has a profound understanding of science, medicine, psychology, etc., And is familiar with all aspects of astronomy and geography. It is natural for him to turn this knowledge into a part of his literary works. Among the essays included in this book, the topics are extremely broad, the perspectives are novel, and the ideas are broad. He is good at expressing profound thoughts in light and casual themes, and some of his political essays and discussions about literary and artistic works and characters are full of unique insights. From time to time, you can see whimsical ideas, humorous remarks, profound knowledge freely interspersed, and extraordinary ability to foresee the future world; he is a typical pessimistic skeptic and an angry idealist. His prose essays have outstanding speculative colors and keen intuition. They severely criticize the civilization brought about by Western industrial society, the supremacy of technology and centralized rule, and the supremacy of entertainment to death. They continue the novel's style of seamless integration of humanities and natural sciences, and organically combine poetry and science. Therefore, many of them are famous works that can be recorded in the history of prose, and have a profound impact.

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