Aldous Huxley... writes in The Genius and the Goddess: "life...."Intrinsically golden," Rivers insisted. "Poetical by its essential nature. But of course if you're sufficiently steeped in the tripe and hogwash dished out by the molders of public opinion, you'll tend automatically to pollute your impressions at the source; you'll re-create the world in the image of your own notions--and of course your own notions are everybody els's notions; so the world you live in will consist of the Lowest Common Denominators of the local culture. But the original poetry is always there--always," he insisted.