Henry Miller

[davemarc]

At 02:12 PM 5/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>> Around fucking episodes Henry Miller builds a "wildly" sentimentalistic
>> and "daringly" eloquent pseudo-philosophy, which, as I see it, is meant
>> to justify his cock -- his masculine imagination, his masculine universe. 
>
>And yet, there are some really fine passages in _Tropic of Cancer_, a
>couple in _Tropic of Capricorn_, and _Opus Pistorum_ particularly, which
>may be the finest piece of pornography ever written.  It manages to be vile
>and screamingly funny, and still preserve that Milleresque "I don't really
>want to hurt anybody" tone of fuddled benevolence, all at the same time.
>
>His later work is turgid and, IMHO, quite boring.

This may disillusion you a bit, but there's not much evidence that Miller
wrote more than a very small portion of *Opus Pistorum* (a.k.a. *Under the
Roofs of Paris*).  Miller apparently couldn't stomach the exercise of
writing an honest-to-goodness "dirty book."  Caresse Crosby may well be
responsible for most of it.  

davemarc