Neville asked Aldous Huxley whether anyone listing the six greatest users of the English language could omit Blake, and Huxley answered that he had just said the same thing.

He describes taking a maximum dose of LSD one night with a doctor friend who wanted to experiment with him because he was mystically inclined; Aldous Huxley was to have observed but was sick, two othe

Neville recalls his personal friendship with Aldous Huxley, whom he knew well and found a delightful dinner companion, and quotes Huxley's confession from Ends and Means that he had motives for wantin

Neville went to see the burnt home and the burned brush on the night Aldous Huxley's house burned to the ground, Huxley losing his library of first editions and art objects and saving only the suit on

Coming out of the Ebell Theatre after giving his lecture, Neville looked up and saw the Hollywood hills aflame; some forty houses burned that night, one of them Aldous Huxley's, destroying his unpubli

Neville describes visiting Huxley's dark house on King's Road, where the first wife kept every curtain drawn to protect his near-blind eyes, and how after the second marriage the couple moved to a hou

A friend gave Neville a D. H.

At a dinner party Neville told Aldous Huxley that the biblical characters were not persons; Huxley objected that Caesar and Herod really lived and are mentioned in scripture, and Neville answered that

Neville recalls telling Aldous Huxley, who read the New Testament in the original Greek, that he still did not understand it.

Neville's friend Aldous Huxley refused to listen to his accounts of his birth from above and the vision of David, because Neville's colonial accent marked him as an outsider in Huxley's social world.