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Book SynopsisIn 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed.
Trade ReviewConcise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane,
The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece * Sunday Times *
There is nothing the pen of Huxley touches which it does not illuminate, and as the record of a highly civilised, brilliantly articulate man under the influence of an astonishing drug,
The Doors of Perception is a tour de force * Daily Telegraph *
You can look at
Aldous Huxley and draw parallels with the Beatles:
Crome Yellow and
Those Barren Leaves were his breakthrough Merseybeat books, Po
int Counter Point was his 'Revolver', with
The Doors of Perception his full-blown Sergeant Pepper trip. Like the Beatles, Huxley had so many ideas in his head that it was natural he would want to expand and experiment. What drugs provided for them both was not escape, but reevaluation * The Times *
The
Doors of Perception is a poignant book, partly because it reveals the human frailties and yearnings of a very cerebral writer * Financial Times *
