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"Perhaps the first, but certainly not the last, time that a skid mark gave the game away.": Stephen Fry having some cheeky (pun intended) fun in the commentary.
"Thank you, Stephen, we didn't need that.": his editors having none of it.

Wow, the letters are big.
I did get the bigger edition, so that checks out.

Het is vreemd een prille liefde te zien ontwikkelen bij iemand waarvan je zeker weet dat die binnen 2 jaar sterft.

I'm not crying. You're crying.

Drama! Mystery! Crime! Swift (misplaced) justice!

It is not about what words you use in a love letter, it is what you say with them.

I would refrain from using the word "cunt", though.

"A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit."

Beg to differ.

Look at that, the "great replacement" theory.

"Death Note Fags"
At least your ciggies aren't lying.

That's book one done: I, uh... I made the comparison with Evangelion: Neon Genesis before, and I feel it's still true, bar some details, of course.
I'll have to see once I finished the other books.

What in the Evangelion: Néon Genesis is going on?!

Spaaaaaaace!

"Tes yeux sont si profonds qu'on me penchant pour boire,
J'ai vu tous les soleils se mirer,
S'y jeter à mourir tous les desespérés.
Tes yeux sont si profonds que j'y perds la mémoire."
This verse would have been absolutely romantic... if it weren't for that huge error in the first line (I don't know if it's a translation error though).

"Toen er kort na de oorlog nog veel magnetische zeemijlen voor de kust lagen, werd zeevissers wel aangeraden om voor hun eigen veiligheid houten haken te gebruiken. De arme sukkel die dat advies serieus nam kreeg vervolgens de tip om die haken dan ook maar te beazen met houtwormen"
Pft.

"Mornin' y'all. Got any eight pound line?"
Points for immersion.

Finally, after 50 pages of sundry and miscellaneous introductions, I can get to the proper story.
Shockingly, Arduous Huxley was for eugenics. The idea became "unthinkable" for him after ww2, not because it implies a lot of weird ideas about the human species, but because the Germans at the time took it to places where it was found to end up (although I'm not sure he gave up on the idea in his 1946 intro).