>Farnaby awakens on the island with a leg injury, hearing a myna bird screaming "Attention"
Here Aldous seems to have gone beyond merely reacting to neoEdwardism..
So far reminding me a bit (in backstory) of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twenty-One_Balloons
>Will remembered suddenly his favourite worst line of poetry.
https://harpers.org/2009/10/arnolds-to-a-friend/
>The up-beat high Victorian view of art as a cure to the woes of society
https://harpers.org/2009/10/forster-what-the-great-minds-tel...
地獄楽 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Paradise:_Jigokuraku
Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185423 (and Katya's sports car, accessorised with radio and small dog)
Huxley called "habitus" well before Bourdieu: Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes.
EDIT: "Hell — is other people" (JPS) "...whose interests aren't aligned [being] thrown into an enclosed space and forced to work together." (YK)
Unless there are any immortals (we saw a one-tail fox this morning) on HN, we're also all (along with several deer yesterday) sentenced to death ... although some of us pledge (logically if foolishly) to seek the Elixir of Life, or die trying.
You're egging (ikigaing) me on to find the countermanding quote in Island