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Line 27: '''''Antic Hay''''' is a [[novel]] by [[Aldous Huxley]], published in 1923. The story takes place in [[London]], and gives a satiric depiction<ref name="britannica">{{cite web \|last1=Kuiper \|first1=Kathleen \|title=Antic Hay: Aldous Huxley, Satire \|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Antic-Hay \|website=Britannica \|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. \|access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref> of the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of [[World War I]]. ~~The book has been called{{by whom\|date=June 2022}} a "[[novel of ideas]]" rather than people.~~ A 1923 review opined that Antic Hay was "probably the most brilliant novel of the year" and summarized Huxley's theme as "contemporary civilization is damnable, and...the dark stream of Time is the only reality."<ref name="glasgow">{{cite web \|title=Men Like Satyrs \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJ1AAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Antic+Hay%22&pg=PA5&article_id=5138,1964223 \|publisher=The Glasgow Herald \|access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref> A 1961 scholarly journal article characterized the book's theme as "disunity, disorder and disorganization" whose characters "illustrate a disreputable world disintegrating into fragments."<ref name="karl">{{cite journal \|last1=Karl \|first1=Frederick \|title=The Play Within a Play in Antic Hay \|journal=Renascence \|date=Winter 1961 \|volume=13 \|issue=2 \|page=59 \|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/f22599106bfc569d681ece92a4fbcdcc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1821460}}</ref> It reinforced Huxley's reputation as an iconoclast. The book was condemned for its cynicism and for its supposed immorality because of its open debate on sex. The novel was banned for a while in Australia and burned in Cairo.{{citation needed\|date=June 2022}} Superficially the story follows Theodore Gumbril, a teacher in an English boarding school who invents Gumbril's Patent Small-Clothes, trousers which contain a [[pneumatic]] cushion in the seat.

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