


Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”, 1932 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Aldous Huxley, “Ape and Essence”, 1948 also was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, 1956. The book consists of seventeen (17) chapters plus appendix ; and, the table of contents is listed BELOW.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
1. The Education of an Amphibian.
2. Knowledge and Understanding.
3. The Desert.
4. Ozymandias, the Utopia that Failed.
5. Liberty, Quality, Machinery.
6. Censorship and Spoken Literature.
7. Canned Fish.
8. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
9. Hyperion to a Satyr.
10. Mother.
11. Adonis and the Alphabet.
12. Miracle in Lebanon.
13.Usually Destroyed.
14. Famagusta or Paphos.
15. Faith, Taste and History.
16. Doodles in a Dictionary.
17. Gesualdo: Variations on a Musical Theme.

COMMENTS.
My favorite essay from this book is #11 “Adonis and the Alphabet”; and, a excerpt from is shown BELOW.
Quote #1: “Language exists in two forms, the spoken and the written”.
Quote #2: “Before the invention of the alphabet, the civilized peoples of the Near East employed one or other of two very ancient systems of writing- the hieroglyphic of Egypt and the cuneiform of Sumeria …”

The development of writing shown in this diagram is the topic of “Adonis and the Alphabet”. 
