Sublime

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

More’s Utopia was in many ways astonishingly liberal. I am not thinking so much of the preaching of communism, which was in the tradition of many religious movements. I am thinking rather of what is said about war, about religion and religious toleration, against the wanton killing of animals (there is a most eloquent passage against hunting), and

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”

Aldous Huxley had recently published Doors of Perception

The Tralfamadorians tried to give Billy clues that would help him imagine sex in the invisible dimension. They told him that there could be no Earthling babies without male homosexuals. There could be babies without female homosexuals. There couldn’t be babies without women over sixty-five years old. There could be babies without men over sixty-fiv