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  • And in another novel by Huxley, Antic Hay, Haldane pops up in the guise of the character Shearwater, “the biologist too absorbed in his experiments to notice his friends bedding his wife.”

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • They understood – or appeared to – that the voters were not giving them a green light to behave like characters from Brideshead Revisited, Antic Hay or Crome Yellow.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • Having spoofed the goofily ebullient society hostess as Priscilla Wimbush in his novel Crome Yellow and similarly as Lilian Aldwinkle in Those Barren Leaves, he would doubtless have made Antic Hay with her response to a first course of pan-fried black pudding, soft poached duck egg and sauce Thermidor.

    Evening Standard - Home Fay Maschler 2011

  • In high school, I read all four of Huxley’s disillusioned novels of the 1920’s — Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Point Counterpoint, and Those Barren Leaves.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Aldous Huxley: 2009

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