Aldous Huxley's 'Crome Yellow' - the interesting and the entertaining. Practice how to be interesting, or be entertaining, else - why do you expect your partner to stick around, or your acquaintances to invite you over?
And in his writing sometimes, and Crome Yellow is one of those sometimes, Huxley tried to be both. Interesting or Entertaining to whom though?
The Interesting - well, it is voiced mainly in the conversations and in the thoughts of these people, and it is noticeable that most of their concerns have 'the long-term relevance' about them; they are not of local and passing concern.
Some are trite comments, but they are the voices of characters and not necessarily Huxley's voice, some are eerily predicting, some are emotional truths (men's unrequited love is unsolvable and a bore to the desired woman), some are of the problems of approaching life with a simplistic education, a simplistic knowledge, and expecting life to fit that education.
And so the book strides interestingly on. Or does it? Nothing works for everyone.
The Entertaining - well, Crome Yellow is not bitter satire; it is sometimes gently and affectionately mocking, it is sometimes the wry humour borne out of male unrequited love, or out of the despair of the boy who cannot 'let go' and join in the fun, it is sometimes the humour borne of a singular imagination (did Huxley imagine the story of the privies or did he discover it?) . . .

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