RIP: Laura Huxley

Just came across the news that Laura Huxley has died of cancer at the age of 96:

[Aldous] Huxley's fame in the 1950s owed much to his advocacy of the controlled use of the then legal hallucinogenic drug mescalin, detailed in his 1954 book The Doors of Perception. When Laura first watched him under the influence of the drug, she saw, she later wrote, "a timeless roundness [for him] on a cosmic level - while I, on the cosmetic one, was worrying about the new rinse". Her own first LSD experience prompted desperate sobbing as the chemical intensified the recent experience of visiting a Mexican orphanage. Next day, still aware of the drug's effect, she went to a funeral, where "an immense cosmic laughter exploded throughout my trillions of cells ... Tears were streaming down my cheeks. The unending, immeasurable laughter could, thank heaven, be interpreted as uncontrollable sobbing."