Island, published in 1962, is Aldous Huxley‘s final work — and life’s finale, subsuming all that always consumed him: dystopia and utopia; immanence and eminence; transcendence and presence; mysticism and science; esotericism and shamanism; individualism and communalism; humanization, modernization, and industrialization; and enlightenment.
In framing an ideal we may assume what we wish
but should avoid impossibilitiesAristotle
Island contains several subworks in the swell of its larger work. Discontinously scattered across Island‘s 286 pages, these are: one philosophic treatise, one psuedo-Grecian play, and one collection of poems. Raiazome collects these subworks into several pages, below.
Island also contains several strings of paragraphs, continuously strung on several other pages, worth quoting in the whole. These are:
Several of the excerpts above (particularly, large sections of Notes on What's What and Poems) were sourced from Island Web‘s Thoughts on Aldous Huxley's Island. Given that that website obtained explicit permission to reproduce those excerpts from Laura Huxley, it is believed that this website’s reproduction of those same excerpts, also, consitutes no breach of copyright.