[HN Gopher] Aldous Huxley insisted "Crome Yellow" was fiction. O...
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       Aldous Huxley insisted "Crome Yellow" was fiction. Ottoline Morrell
       disagreed
        
       Author : lermontov
       Score  : 76 points
       Date   : 2022-04-12 00:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | reg_dunlop wrote:
       | Great read! And a great share!
       | 
       | It's fantastic when the article pushes my appetite for knowledge
       | and offers a keyhole to aristocracy of days gone by. It's like
       | shaking hands with one of it's participants while they
       | momentarily bore themselves of their usual lavish life with my
       | existence lol...
       | 
       | Though it is articles like this that make me ponder about such
       | aristocratic life today, and how the modern proliferation and
       | consolidation of wealth is a usurper of such relations and events
       | to spawn current literature, in the now.
       | 
       | Having read the seminal Huxley work, I'm now looking forward to
       | consuming Chrome Yellow, with verve.
        
       | languagehacker wrote:
       | Huxley dramatized significant members of British society in Point
       | Counterpoint, famously including DH Lawrence, so I wouldn't be
       | surprised if he drew some characters from real life in this one,
       | too.
        
       | jhbadger wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | kelseyfrog wrote:
         | As a person who found myself grafted awkwardly into a friend's
         | novel, it shrieks of callowness on the part of the author - a
         | detour from propriety.
        
           | yeetsfromhellL2 wrote:
           | Yeah but your friend probably isn't as good of a writer as
           | Huxley.
        
           | jobs_throwaway wrote:
           | 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
        
         | nonrandomstring wrote:
         | In Bloomsbury they were in and out of each other's lives, beds,
         | and books. Those modern disclaimers saying "All characters and
         | events are entirely fictional." make me laugh. It absolutely
         | goes without saying that novelists, especially satirists draw
         | on all their friends, family and work colleagues. If you're
         | (un)lucky enough to be in or near that circle, even as the
         | local bartender or random person they once met, the only
         | question is _where_ you feature.
        
         | jandrese wrote:
         | I really hope she cheats on her husband with the dashing and
         | handsome science fiction novelist character.
        
       | ArtWomb wrote:
       | Love reading about the Bloomsbury Set in London early 1900s. I
       | think the finest novelization of that world is the E. M. Forester
       | *Howard's End". Movie & TV versions work as well. One of those
       | stories you can set in any generation and it holds sort of true
       | ;)
        
       | Geonode wrote:
       | Fantastic read, thanks, I needed that this morning.
       | 
       | I never thought to go check what else he had written, even though
       | I've read several of the other authors listed.
        
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