Eyeless in Gaza (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Anthony Beavis: Add a description of this character.
• Brian Foxe
• Helen
• Mark Staithes
• Joan
• Caldwell
• John Beavis
• Mary Amberley
• Hugh Ledwidge
• Bulstrode
• Gerry Watchett
• Dr. Miller
• Joyce
• Pauline
• Holtzmann
• Don Jorge
• Mr. Croy
• James Beavis
• Horse-face
• Mrs. Thursley
• Bonifay
• Thompson
• Goggler
• Benger
• Colin
• Gauguin
• Mr. Baldwin
• Beppo
• Beatrice
• Gattick
• Mrs. Weeks
• Tompy
• Mme

Quotes edit see section history

• “"Empirical facts: One: We are all capable of love for other human beings. Two. We impose limitations on that love. Three. We can transend all these limitations - if we choose to. (It is a matter of observation that anyone who so desires can overcome personal dislike, class feeling, national hatred, colour prejudice. Not easy; but it can be done, if we have the will and know how to carry out our good intentions.) Four. Love expressing itself in good treatment breeds love. Hate expression itself in bad treatment breeds hate." (A. Huxley 1936 p.185)”

• “"Dancing, she lost her life in order to save it; lost her identity and became something greater than herself; lost her perplexities and self-hatreds in a bright harmonious certitude; lost her bad character and was made perfect; lost the regretted past, the apprehended future, and gained a timeless present of consummate happiness. She who could not paint, could not write, could not even sing in tune, became while she danced an artist; no, more than an artist; became a god, the creator of a new heaven and a new earth, a creator rejoicing in his creation and finding it good." (A. Huxley 1936 p.197)”

• “"My reward would be just being in your neighbourhood, just seeing and hearing you - the reward of someone who comes out of a dusty place into a garden, and looks at the flowering trees, and listens to the fountains." (A. Huxley 1936 p.393)”

• “"God may or may not exist. But there is the empirical fact that contemplation of the divinity - of goodness in its most unqualified form - is a method of realizing that goodness in some slight degree in one's life, and results, often, in an experience as if of help towards that realization of goodness, help from some being other than one's ordinary self and immensely superior to it." (A. Huxley 1936 p.415)”

• “"And she herself, the object of his contemplative and aesthetic unselfishness - she too, in his imaginings, in the accumulating pages of his manuscript, had possessed the quality of a picture or a piece of music; something that it would be sufficient happiness merely to look at forever, to listen to; perhaps, occasionally, to touch, as though she were a statue, to caress with an almost imperceptible tenderness." (A. Huxley 1936 p.418)”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• Paris
• Germany
• Lollingdon
• England
• Tenby
• Basel
• Desdemona
• Switzerland
• Heaven
• India
• Tapatlan
• Italy

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Doctor - A Novel of Romance and Intrigue.

Preceded by Summer Will Show, and followed by The Thinking Reed.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Aldous Huxley (Author)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.912

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary