ask bill..he did a free download..merle Bill!, Merle, et al.,
Well, I went to the used-book store near me again today, and still they do not have a copy of ISLAND by Huxley; I've been looking for about a month. It might be fun to re-read it after these intervening 38 years or so. I remember that the first few chapters were OK, when it was almost an adventure story, and I recall the Little Green Book, and some of the doings of the head honchos on the island. Was there "Moksha", or something? I read the entire novel, but the early chapters are more memorable now. What I recall most clearly was the protagonist climbing cliffs, or something, to get onto shore after his shipwreck. And, OK, that green book with the sayings of a master. And some honchos. And Moksha. What I enjoyed most was just encountering in a new context some of the themes and words I'd encountered in my first academic study of Hinduism, and seeing how they were played out by a modern author of fiction who had sympathy with Hinduism and with religious practice, and mysticism in general, and with drugs (this is where I think the Moksha came in, and of course Moksha was/is also a mythical or real substance in India; some say it is Hemp). I'll keep looking for an old beat-up copy. My original was lost to water damage when a radiator on a floor above leaked, and water drowned my bookshelf below in a cheap place I lived during college. I lost a lot of better books, then, too. --Joe > "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > > Merle, > > I finished Chapter 7 a couple days ago. That's about halfway.
