Lately out of sheer intellectual boredom I have been comparing myself to Aldous Huxley. Like Huxley I abhor popular culture, and my disdain knows few limits. Like Huxley I think we are amusing ourselves these days into irrelevancy. Huxley foretold the current world better than Orwell. Where I part company with Huxley is over his perennial philosophy---beyond my fathoming---and with his doors of perception---the 60's are over, Aldous, and Timothy Leary and The Greening of America will not be making curtain calls although writer Thomas Wolfe might be seen winking offstage.