Novelist and essayist, born in Godalming, Surrey, the grandson of T.H. Huxley . He also experimented with drugs. The two essays about his mescaline adventures are The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell , nicely chronicled through letter correspondances during the time in Moksha .
Island is a monumentally important work.
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