ABSTRACT
In Time Must Have a Stop Mr. Huxley has provided a case history of himself. It is a novel about a gay old dog, a selfish sensualist and aesthete, who represents the earlier Huxley, and about a youthful poet, a saintly Italian anti-fascist, and the ghost of the cynical reprobate in heaven, who stand for the reformed Huxley. They all have learned to believe in the baffling mystical abstractions of Mr. Huxley's new faith. But, ironically enough, it is the sinner who is amusing and likable and the reformed characters who are dull and irritating. So Time Must Have a Stop is a clumsy failure as fiction; and much of its mystic message is incomprehensible and even a little bit silly. Aldous Huxley has found his own peculiar path to paradise, but most readers who may try to follow him will be certain to lose their way.
