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LA is a big place. There are so many other authors that he might've interacted with such as Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, and Philip K. Dick. That said, it just
by maxk42 5y ago
LA is a big place. There are so many other authors that he might've interacted with such as Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, and Philip K. Dick. That said, it just so happens that the apartment building he lived in on Crescent Heights just south of Sunset Blvd. also housed many other famous writers including Earnest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Raymond Chandler. I lived directly across the street from it for two years.
- 50 5y agoHuxley frequented Orange County. The monastery I regularly attend (Ramakrishna Monastery in Trabuco Canyon) was previously a college (The Trabuco College of Prayer), as mentioned in the piece, for prayer and study of mysticism to which Huxley was a part of the construction of, alongside Gerald Heard and others [1]. The college only lasted 7 years (1942-1949) when the land was handed over to the Vedanta Society. 1. https://dissenttheblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/ramakrishna-monastery-aldous-huxley-in.html https://dissenttheblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/ramakrishna-mona...