Crome yellow
by Aldous Huxley · first published 1921
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“Crome Yellow” by Aldous Huxley ; 1922 A young English poet, Denis Stone, is spending some time at Crome, an English estate and mansion of the Wimbush family. He is in love with Anne Wimbush, the niece of Henry Wimbush. The other guests include a few other writers, an artist, and it is in essence a small gathering of people who are also close friends. Denis has just started to write a novel. But he is going through a period of questioning himself as a writer. He is also unhappy that Anne does not love him. One particular evening he is feeling particularly miserable: “.......
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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
on “Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed” ↗…with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” ― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
on “Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions” ↗…destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
on “On Becoming the Enemy” ↗…with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” – Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
on “California sues Uber and Lyft, claiming workers are misclassified” ↗…with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” ― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
on “Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)” ↗…with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” ― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
on “GitHub, fuck your name change” ↗Huxley's second novel. His first, highly autobiographical, was published two years prior -- Crome Yellow. Discussed on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30997257
on “The 'Batman Effect': How having an alter ego empowers you (2020)” ↗A casual check says the quoted text is from Huxley's Crome Yellow (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1999/1999-h/1999-h.htm) and that the speaker is a character known only as Mr. Scogan, which some suggest is an analogue of Bertrand Russell.
on “Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols” ↗* Crome Yellow (no "h") The issue IMHO is that: 1) their buyers, who are the people that decide what each store stocks, deteriorated from "people who knew books" to "people who knew inventory control" ; as a result,…
on “Bookstore Chain Borders is Dead” ↗