ABSTRACT
Aldous Huxley considered Time Must Have a Stop to be his most successful attempt at combining narrative and idea. By the time he had written Time Must Have a Stop (1944), he had had considerable practice at uniting the two efforts. In surveying Huxley's literary career, Douglas Dutton recommends the value of dividing it into three distinct eras: the satiric novels, the novels of ideas, and the final period devoted to mystical writings. Bruno Rontini is yet another incarnation of Huxley's mystical personality with whom he is able to clarify the special relationship between morphological typing and moral temperament. The epilogue in Time Must Have a Stop is reserved for a more in-depth discussion of the systematic unity of a metaphysics, an epistemology, and an ethics. Huxley's exegesis of Shakespeare's philosophical insight extends beyond the rivalry between Hotspur and Henry.
