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Enneagram Movie Board Archive hypothesisPosted by Jan den Breejen (213.75.43.195) on August 06, 2002 at 00:43:55: In Reply to: Aldous Huxley posted by Jan den Breejen (213.75.36.57) on August 05, 2002 at 14:48:34: Huxley's first story Time Must Never Have a Stop portrays a narcissistic boy who reads the great Greek and English poets and writes the most beautiful poems in seconds when he sees the shades of light in a chapel or when observing a drawing of Degas. H. clearly considered himself a very outstanding person; he even had calculated that 99,5 % of all mortals was ignorant of art, culture and spiritual values. 'And 99,8% of literature was rubbish.' H. was a philosopher who seemned to watch humanity from the hights of the Olympus. In A Brave New World he suggested that the world be ruled by an aristocracy, a stable community ruled by experts. He considered himself so great that he could have a explicit (often cynical) judgement about anything; even if he didn't know anything about it. He and his lesbian, exploitative histrionic wife Maria Nys looked like dandy's, snobs and bourgeois upper-middle-class people: Virginia Woolf said that 'they looked like having walked away from the Vogue magazine pictures' H. was rather indifferent towards other individuals; he didn't seem them worthy of much attention. This made him a bad lover; his narcissism was badly hurt when Nancy Cunard (daughter of rich Cunard fleet owner) rejected him. H. was also an opportunist; he defamed Hollywood but went to work there when he was offered money. He thought the world outside (and even inside) his hautain hypercivilized British upper-middle-class world was barbarian, stupid and chaotic, even ugly and 'stupid'. H. was hautain, and talked with 'dedain' about other people and interactions of other people. About D.h. Laurence: 'He is so suffocating visceral, that one longs for the open air of intellectual abstraction and pure spirituality'. (D.H.L. about H; 'words, words, words...talk, talk, talk')Einstein was a genious but not brilliant. Huxley was too brilliant and virtuous to be a genious. No wonder H. experimented with drugs; narcists need to escape from real life to keep the image of their grandiosity and superiority alive in the inner fantasy world. The outer world shatters this image. Assessment: Compensatory Narcissistic personality (3w4) Jan
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