In message <199903270153.UAA08253@websmtp1.bellsouth.bigfoot.com>, joe
dees <joedees@bellsouth.net> writes
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>I have earlier remarked that BNW was not the mature expression of Aldous
>Huxley's utopian thought; that rather ISLAND was.
I haven't been following this thread, but having noticed this sentence, I have to respond: the notion of Brave New World as a utopia is very strange. It is in fact the exact opposite: a distopia. Unlike Island, which certainly is utopian.
-- Robin