Literature Network » Aldous Huxley

NOTES & THEORIES: Sex! Speed! Buildings! The weird genius of Carlo Mollino

Content courtesy of

From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050925
Author:Stephen Bayley

Speed, Aldous Huxley astutely explained, was the sole sensation unique to the 20th century. Flight, after all, had been known to Icarus and those intrepid 18th-century French balloonists. Sex, on the other hand, is a sensation familiar throughout history. Speed is an amazing discipline: to go fast you need to be efficient. Fast animals and fast machines share a formal elegance. In manufacturing, making things quickly means getting them right. As we all know, there is not much discipline about sex " quite the opposite in my own experience " but it is a sempiternally intoxicating source of ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Other Articles on Aldous Huxley

About Our Articles: We've partnered with Highbeam Research to provide these article excerpts for your research needs. However, due to copyright laws, we cannot publish the whole article. To view these articles in full length you'll need to use the link above to access the free trial at Highbeam.