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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030420
Author:Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle

ALDOUS HUXLEY

An English Intellectual

By Nicholas Murray

Thomas Dunne. 496 pp. $29.95

Aldous Huxley died while tripping on acid. On Nov. 22, 1963 (the day President Kennedy was assassinated), mortally ill with cancer, unable to speak, he wrote out a request for an injection of LSD, a drug he had taken several times before. His doctor consented. Huxley's second wife administered the injection and, two hours later, a second one. In keeping with the principles of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, she encouraged him to let go. When it was time, he did.

LSD was nothing new to the dying man -- he had ...

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