![]() ![]() I can't overlook the fact that they are both dicks. I could overlook Miller being a man of the 1920's just like I could overlook Rose's betting on games. ![]() I won't be re-reading any Henry Miller just like I won't be rooting for Pete Rose to make the Hall of Fame. But in the end, Henry Miller is like Pete Rose, no matter how good and "modern" his writing was= he doesn't make it into the Hall of Fame because he was not only sexist, but probably a woman hater. I can see how he influenced my writing style even to this day- some stream of consciousness and surrealistic imagery along with a heavy use of commas and semi colons to enhance paragraphs to a couple of pages with lists, asides and what not. In the year 2000, more than half of the world's population lived north of the Tropic of Cancer. ![]() The equivalent line of latitude south of the Equator is called the Tropic of Capricorn, and the region between the two, centered on the Equator, is the tropics. So how does this hold up to me 50 years later? If you could cut out the misogany and ignorant racism, Henry Miller did cut a unique figure in English literature. North of the tropic are the subtropics and the North Temperate Zone. He was also and man of his times sexist and racist. They included authors like Nabakov, Anais Nin, Alan Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, Marquis De Sade and others- but Henry Miller was the star of their universe to me.Īnd why not? His books were full of "sex" and the kind of writing that revolutionized English literature along with the rest of the Grove Press crew. ![]() I was big into the Grove Press books in my late teens and early twenties. ![]()
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