Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
POINT COUNTER POINT
(First published in 1928)
‘Oh, wearisome condition of humanity!
Born under one law, to another bound,
Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity:
Created sick, commanded to be sound.
What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws—
Passion and reason, self-division’s cause?’
—Fulke Greville
CHAPTER I
‘You won’t be late?’ There was anxiety in Marjorie Carling’s voice, there was something like entreaty.
‘No, I won’t be late,’ said Walter, unhappily and ...