Huxley packed light & would’ve love-hated the Internet
Lapham’s Quarterly reprints a great 1924 Aldous Huxley essay on travel reading. The trick, he says, is to abandon the idea that you’re going to work your week through the Western canon on a two-week tour of France. A perfect book to take along is one “of such a kind that one can open it anywhere and be sure of finding something interesting, complete in itself and susceptible of being read in a short time.” He suggests, among other things, poetry, La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims , and “the apho