The Books in My Life by Henry Miller

Author:Henry Miller [Miller, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811222280
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2016-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

1 According to Gregory Mason, author of Remember the Maine, Dewey’s words were: “You may fire when ready, Gridley.”

2 The Great Age of Greek Literature, by Edith Hamilton; W. W. Norton, New York, 1942.

3 Ibid.

4 The Conquest of Mexico and Peru.

5 “It is a very hard thing to escape the American horror; and quite impossible, I suppose, to explain to those who don’t see what it is that the victims of it see. The horror can be very big. But it can also be very small. Most things of this sort can be detected by their smell; and I think this particular horror is usually found—like the inside of an American coffin after the embalming process has run its course—to smell of a mixture of desolate varnish and unspeakable decomposition. The curious thing about it is that it is a horror that can only be felt by imaginative people. It is more than a mere negation of all that is mellow, lovely, harmonious, peaceful, organic, satisfying. It is not a negation at all! It is a terrifying positive. I think at its heart lies a sort of lemur-like violence of gruesome vulgarity. It certainly loves to dance a sort of “danse macabre” of frantic self-assertion. It has something that is antagonistic to the very essence of what the old cultures have been training to us for ten thousand years.” (John Cowper Powys in his Autobiography.)

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