Aldous Huxley, who listened to Gesualdo's music while taking mescaline, was so carried away by it that he once made up stories about him in a lecture.

The reaction of many scientists is to lament these "science fiction" stories, to imagine that if Mary Shelley and Aldous Huxley had never committed their imaginings to paper all would have been well.

Written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices... of the readers-Aldous Huxley; the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.