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
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Ave America! From Whitman to Kerouac…
When Europe sloughed off her old skin and the ones who didn’t want to accomodate post-liberation Europe traveled the great Atlantic to come to the continent they were not free and they didn’t seek freedom — just think of the Salem Witch Trials, as if they were a result of great religious freedoms — no… Continue reading Ave America! From Whitman to Kerouac…
Post Postmodernism Must Be Devoid of Self-Consciousness
Self-consciousness is bad. I saw the de Kooning exhibit today and even though he scraped and covered his canvases over again and again, it wasn’t to be a great painter, it was to see how far he could go. If he had been like, I want to be a great painter, the paintings wouldn’t have… Continue reading Post Postmodernism Must Be Devoid of Self-Consciousness
Daniel the Writer 