Huxley’s Genius and the Goddess: one imagines that the perfect world, to Aldous Huxley, is one in which he and a friend of learning (who has a striking resemblance to Huxley) are given a large television which constantly exhibits the parade of human miseries, joys, triumphs and especially defeats. They are paid a modest sum (enough at least to pay their bills at a few dependable West London clubs) to provide commentary on this television show, commentary which is summarily published across Christendom to muted, if unequivocal praise.