MISC. SLOW LEARNER This style, this new 'return to reality' in fiction then. TRP has Tropic of Capricorn quote; still believes in On the Road.

[Mark Kohut]

"His mouth hung open like a hinge, his eyes were popping out of his head;
he looked for all the world like a good-natured toad that had been hit with
a rock. Have another drink? Sure! What was I saying? Oh yes . . . in the
middle of the book I would explode. Why not? There were plenty of writers
who could drag a thing out to the end without letting go of the reins; what
we needed was a man, like myself for instance, who didn’t give a fuck what
happened. Dostoevski hadn’t gone quite far enough. I was for straight
gibberish. One should go cuckoo! People have had enough of plot and
character. Plot and character don’t make life. Life isn’t in the upper
storey: life is here now, any time you say the word, any time you let rip.
Life is four hundred and forty horsepower in a two-cylinder engine . ."

Miller, Henry (2007-12-01). Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I "
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