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Time must have a stop london and florence by huxley, aldous and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. It follows the story of sebastian barnack, a young poet, who holidays with his hedonistic uncle in florence. In his 1944 novel time must have a stop, he clarified, one can either go on listening to the newsand of course the news is always bad, even when it sounds good. Written during the closing year of world war 2 and published in 1945, time must have a stop is brutal examination of the various philosophies of humanism, liberalism, socialism and communism. Nov 30, 2011 simultaneously the pillars and the dynamite. Aldous huxley was born in surrey, england, on july 26, 1894, to an illustrious family deeply rooted in englands literary and scientific tradition. Time must have a stop by aldous huxley 1,162 ratings, 3.
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