# Point Counter Point — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley.

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/i.md): Walter Bidlake reflects on his failed attempt to model his relationship with Marjorie Carling on Shelley's poetry, recalling advice from his brother-in-law Philip Quarles about the dangers of taking art too literally. He
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/ii.md): The chapter contrasts the sensual, unapologetic love of John Bidlake with the timid, apologetic love of Lord Edward Tantamount, revealing Hilda Tantamount's calculated enjoyment of both. During a concert, John Bidlake's 
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/iii.md): Lord Edward Tantamount, feeling aimless and suicidal, discovers a quote by Claude Bernard about the unity of life, which inspires him to abandon politics for a scientific career. Forty years later, he works obsessively o
- [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/iv.md): At Lady Edward's party, John Bidlake confronts his aging and past through a conversation with Mrs. Betterton and Lucy about women and art, while Illidge feels slighted by Lady Edward's inattention to his scientific work.
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/v.md): Illidge vents his class resentment to Walter, criticizing the rich and defending his own appearance and intellect. He recounts being arrested for his looks and attacks the bourgeois virtues as products of wealth. Lord Ed

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- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xix.md)
- [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xx.md)
- [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxv.md)
- [From Philip Quarles's Notebook](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxvi.md)
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxvii.md)
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxviii.md)
- [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxix.md)
- [Chapter XXX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxx.md)
- [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxxi.md)
- [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxxii.md)
- [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxxiii.md)
- [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxxiv.md)
- [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxxv.md)
- [XXXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxxvi.md)
- [XXXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/point_counter_point_se/chapters/xxxvii.md)

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