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Tag Archives: Henry Miller
Working on a Building
You are what you are because of your past daily habits. Day by day you must make or break your body. You either build it up or tear it down. – Angelo Siciliano (Charles Atlas) The way we live our … Continue reading
On Destinations
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. – Henry Miller, US author (1891-1980) Share This:
The hands that write these words tell lies
The hands that write these words tell lies; their range of symbols does not jibe with the instructions they receive and must translate from eye and ear through circuits fixed through years of use to see and hear in certain … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Henry Miller, illusions, impressions, interpretation, lies, symbolism, writing
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Moving Rocky to Balboa
About 10 years ago, I was fascinated with both stream-of-consciousness and cut-up, randomized writing. In that fertile stream bed, fueled by endless coffee cups and unfiltered cigarettes, I lay for a period of about two straight years. There was something … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged cut-up novels, Henry Miller, stream of consciousness, William S Burroughs
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A Modern Erasmus
When I have a little money, I do not buy food or other such trivialities. I buy books. – Erasmus Ah, as Lawrence Olivier might say in one of his Nazi- or vampire-hunting roles … “I haf enlarged ze library … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Erasmus, Henry Miller, Johann von Goethe, Knut Hamsun, Laurence Olivier, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney
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A Sidebar to my NEA post …
More from Henry Miller, Obscenity and the Law of Reflection: The chances are that during this transition period of global wars, lasting perhaps a century or two, art will become less and less important. A world torn by indescribable upheavals, … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Miller, NEA, obscenity, Obscenity and the Law of Reflection
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More thoughts on war and peace
From Henry Miller, Obscenity and the Law of Reflection: As civilization progresses it becomes more and more apparent that war is the greatest release which life offers to the ordinary man. Here he can let go to his heart’s content … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Miller, obscenity, Obscenity and the Law of Reflection
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