Page Four.
THE SALEMllE
March 23, 194^
Column
Huxley Still Wanders
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TO STUDENTS IN CAPTIVITY
, WHY GIVE BOOKS?
Books help cure the dre;id “harb-
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• aptives in prisoner of war camps
in 33 different count l ies, many of
whom ^iri' university stiiJents wliose
studies liave been interrupted. Books
make possible the “universities in
captivity’’ that constructively break
file deinorHlizing monutony of the
lives of these “men without privacy,
men without liberty.”
THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS
MOEE NEEDED!
The World Student .Service Fund
collected 40,000 hooks in American
colleges last year for distribution in
Europe, .\sia, and North America
through World Student Relief and
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prison camps in Europe alone hist
year.), and in cooperation vfith the
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IN ALL LANGUAGES
College or preparatory school text-
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standard works in English
by V’irginia Mclver
Time Must Have A Stop. By Aldous
Huxley. Sllp]). New York: Harper
:iiid Brothers, 1944. $2.75
-\ldous Huxley is a better essay
ist iind philosopher thj^n a novel
ist. His two nios! rec(mt novels,
Eyeless in Gaza and Time. Must
Have A Stop, are proof of this fact,
.^fter reading these two books, I
am convinced that Huxley’s philoso
phical ideas would be better accept
ed and appreciated in some^ form
(jf writing other than fiction. I feel
tliat his ideas are entirely too pro-
toiniil and complex to be prexentel
in novel form.
Ill bi.th Eyeless in Gaza and Time
Must Have A Stop Huxley ex-
I i-e.s.si’s es-cntially the same theme
—a person groping in later life for
mystical salvation. Ifl Eyeless in
Gaza he presents Anthony Reavis,
a professor of sociology, who after
life preoccu|)ied with physical
' vils, struggles for a mystical sal-
v!,fioii. In Time Miist Have A Stop
■igainst the background of Loiidon
:iiid Florence in the late twenties he
N'lls the story of Sebastian Bar-
i;:ii-k, a seventeen-year-old boy blesa-
'd with good looks and a gift for
literature; standard detective stor-j writing poetry. Sebastian, considered
ies; language books—grammars and ; Uv his father a weakling and good-
readers and classics in the various ; for-nothing. goes to live with his
languages; books from the Modern j ^ Eustace, the hi'donist. The
1 :',(-tual plot of the story (for T do
i!of consider the last chajiter a
ir.irt of the [)lot) is very simple and
covers a very short length of time.
Library, Everyman Eibrary. llazen
Series in Religion, Home T’niversit |
Library, etc. books on profession;;,
subjects: lawy medicine, theology,
etc. Ty]»es of hooks we cannot send
because of censorship; inagaz.ineB
and newspapers; any book having
military significance; advanced tech
nical books: i. e., advanced jihysics,
chemistry, aeronautics, geography,
radio, published since 1938; books
criticizing existing military, politi
cal, economic, and social instituti(ms,
or identified with anti-Nazi activi
ties.
Girls and faculty, after reading
the above plea and need for books
for our boys who are in prLson, won’t
you please p;irt with some of your
books? Maybe you have had some
copy duplicated by a gift. Give the
boys in service one. This is no time
to be selfish. •
In a letter from the executive
secretary of the World Students
Service Fund we are told that the
wortd student relief consists of two
main jobs—raising money and col
lecting books. Since Salem College
has already given five hundred nine
teen dollars and eighty-five cents
to the money fund, surely we can’t
let ourselves down. We were given
a very high rating in th^ National
bulletin for our pecuniary contri
butions. We must think of the boys
our age who are longing to be freed
intellectually by a bdok. Prey upon
your parents while you’re home dur
ing the holidays. We are going to
make a shipment of books soon after
Easter. Either drop your books by
the “ Y” room or give them to a
cabinet member. Yon won’t be
sorry
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Between the last two chapter's,
however, approximately fifteen years
pass: and in the final chapter, which
Huxley calls an epilogue, he presents
the mature Sebastian and the change
that has taken place in his thoughts.
1 fe(‘l that the reader is left to take
for gra'nted too m»ch that must
have hap)M>ned in the missing inter
val of time. Obviously a great change
has taken place in the young Seb
astian who says that he wants life
to be “a tale told by an idiot. Just
one damned thing after another
until at last there's a final damned
thing, after which there isn’t any
thing,” and the Sebastian who de-
clarc's that “the only hope for the
world of time lies in being constant
ly drenched by that which lies be
yond time.”
The last chapter is also the part
that I consider unsuitable material
for fiction; in fact, it is really a
series of literary essays which' ap
pear extremely artificial and forced
in a novel. The device which the
author uses to introduce these pro
found philosophical essays, suppos
edly Sebastian’s thought, is also
very strained. He pictures Sebastian
sitting down at the beginning of
the year and reading over the notes
that he has taken in the past few
months. Then, he begiiis a series of
literary essays upon such subjects
as the existence of God and the be
lief in immortality Occasionally
he interrupts with short narrative
passages to relieve the reader, but
again lie plunges abruptly into his
philosojAical discussions. Huxley is
really showing Sebastian's change
from a materialist and an agnostic
to a mystic; but 1 think he becomes
confused in his discussion of mystic-
!Mii. In the epilogue Sebastian has
realized the incongruity of the life
of his ITncle Eustace and has been
disturbed by the spiritual implica
tions of the seances. At the same
time he has observed thi- happiness
•■nid goodness of the Iif(‘ of the
ieepl.v religious Italian, Bruno Ifon-
tini. It i.s, therefore, a groping but
hopeful Sgbastian who seeks an ex-
)>lan;ition of God and immortality
by testing his beliefs with compli
cated hypotheses.
The philosophical qualities of
Huxley’s book make his characters
seVm im|iersonal: They continue
throughout the book to be characters
about whom we read, but with whom
we do not live. Perhaps this is due
to the fact that Huxley is not det\l-
ing with ordinary people; his char
acters are departures from normal
human beings—Sebastian, the shy,
but extremely brilliant poet; Uncle
P^ustace, the hedonist: Bruno Ron-
tini, the deeply-religious, omniscient
Italian book seller.
In spite of its many faults, Time
Must Have A-Stop is a well-written
book. Huxley is a master of prose;
his knowledge of literature is ex
tensive, and he does not Tail to ex
hibit that fact, alwayii appropriate
ly. There is hardly a page of his
writing that does not contain a
quotation or a literary allusion.
It would be a crime to fail to
mention Huxley’s enormous and well-
I’hosen vocabulary and his excellent
use of humor in a discussion of his
style. In the use of a comic tone
with serious implications, Huxley
shows his ability to entertain while
he is instructing.
Salem Square
(with apologies to R. L. S.)
by Mary Bryant
A street or two of houses,/mostly
old and many of them brick; a
number of budding oaks and maples
clustered beside the dark green holly
trees in front of Main Hall, turn
ing the path across the front campus
into a shady walk; many robins
and redbirds more than usually busy
with their nests; girls a-ch;ittering
and cleaning women talking in
the backward parts; squirrels a-
scurrying around the boxwoods and"
up the trunks of the trees; a smell
of tobacco, a genial breath of spring;
whiffs of dust blowing at the street-
corners: shops with bobby pins and
bottled cokes; another shop with
black cows (that everlasting suck
er) and The Road To Salem, dear,
to me for its old pictures, and a
few other novels dear for their
suggestive names and funny pic
tures: such, as well as T observe,
are the ingredients of Salem Square.
Jane Jeter
(Oont. from page one)
acter to the British people.
.Tane’s essay is entitled “.^meri- j
can to Britain”. She is a member of '
Miss Shamburger’s English class.
Other Salem contestants were Patsy -
Law. whose essay is called “The
American Story” and Hazel Thomas,
“The American Character.”
Second and third place winners
had not been announced when the
paper went to press. Miss Nell Battle
Lewis of Raleigh organized the con
test.
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