Project Gutenberg #60483
Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley
1923Huxley's postwar London satire, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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Chapter 1 — CHAPTER I Central question What is Gumbril doing at the school chapel, and what is his problem? Main argument Gumbril listens to a sermon and wonders whether the God of feeling can be the same as the...
He
felt buoyant with the thought that at last, at last, he was doing
something about life.
When the chop was eaten, he went upstairs and, after filling two
suit-cases and a Gladstone bag with the most valued of his possessions,
addressed himself to the task of writing to the Headmaster. He might
have gone away, of course, without writing. But it would be nobler, more
in keeping, he felt, with his new life, to leave a justification
behind—or rather not a justification, a denouncement. He picked up his
pen and denounced.