It is interesting to me that Henry Miller does not have a greater reputation in classic literature. Perhaps it was because he was so amoral, in the conventional sense. But who is to say what is amoral? Having sex with someone without remembering their name? I think that can be just the opposite, the most… Continue reading Why Read Henry Miller
Category: high literature
High Seriousness and Go Tell It On The Mountain
There is a narratorial authority that comes with laying down a line. We’ve discussed this haven’t we? In the last post I believe. I’m looking back on my older writing and seeing how immature it is…. I finished Go Tell It On The Mountain, which is very maturely written, and highly serious. The high seriousness… Continue reading High Seriousness and Go Tell It On The Mountain
Language Trends and Writing Rules in Post Postmodernism
Writing is changing because language is changing. Adverbs for example, are falling by the wayside. Get home safe! Not safely. The latter is so formal it’s practically an order. Ending a sentence with a preposition is not only kosher, it actually sounds better much of the time. This is what we’re talking about. This is… Continue reading Language Trends and Writing Rules in Post Postmodernism
>The Meaning of September: Post Postmodernism and Change
> September is the most popular birthday month. Surprised? You shoudn’t be. During those cold winter holidays, everyone couples up and huddles close. Anyway, with all these babies being born, school starting again, and the beginning of the end of the year, you may feel that vague fear that comes before impending change, especially if… Continue reading >The Meaning of September: Post Postmodernism and Change
>Happiness in Post Postmodernism
> A recent most popular article in the New York Times exemplifies how the generation of Daniel Adler is jettisoning the “work hard, spend hard” mantra that kept capitalism thriving throughout the latter half of the 20th century. It’s too easy to get stuck in the cycle of buying and shopping, only to go back… Continue reading >Happiness in Post Postmodernism
>It’s My Birthday and I’ll Party If I Want To.
> Daniel Adler : 21st Bday Pic. I know some of you may be resentful of people like me, but I get what I want on my birthday. Not presents. I don’t care anymore about material shit like that. But little things, like the music on the radio. What kind of wine we’re having for… Continue reading >It’s My Birthday and I’ll Party If I Want To.
>Inanimate Urban Wildlife
> Sometimes, when I’m walking down the urban streets, I see a flurry of movement, a flutter in the wind, and my attention catches. Is it a bird? A mammal of some kind? What is going on over there anyway? I wonder. Then the wind picks up and I see what it is. Plastic bags… Continue reading >Inanimate Urban Wildlife
>Eye Scream Sunday
> The other night was sultry, with gray clouds rolling over the sky and a mid-August feel despite the fact that it was only April. The magnolia in the backyard rollicked in the breeze, its pink petals just beginning to bloom at the top of the tree, and I ate my spaghtetti and arrabiata tomato… Continue reading >Eye Scream Sunday
>I’ll Be Carving Your Cantaloupe Tonight
>Tonight’s a great night to carve fruit, I thought, digging my spoon into the stringy ganglion of the cantaloupe. I can do it with a knife, but it’s more difficult to get all of the seeds in the garbage can; it’s much easier with a spoon. I sit at the table with my cantaloupe on… Continue reading >I’ll Be Carving Your Cantaloupe Tonight
>The New York System of Transportation
> The New York Subway System is the most beautiful system of transit ever conceived. It criscrosses, bumps, hiccups, jumps, stalts, heaves, groans, hisses, weaves, narrows, slows, stops, indefatigably sighs and pumps through day and night, some lines coming more infrequently than others, a surge of borough to borough transportation. I look at it… Continue reading >The New York System of Transportation
Daniel the Writer 