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Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921. \"The Gioconda Smile\" is a mixture of social satire and murder story, which Huxley later adapted into a film called A Woman's Vengeance (1948). \"Permutations Among the Nightingales\" is a play concerning the amorous problems encountered by various patrons of a hotel. \"The Tillotson Banquet\" tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead, and is \"rediscovered\"; a not entirely successful honorary dinner is organised for him. \"Green Tunnels\" is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. She develops a romantic fantasy, and is ultimately disillusioned. \"Nuns at Luncheon\" is a second-hand story told of a nun falling in love. The story mocks the writer's process, a concept Huxley used in his novel Crome Yellow. |
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