Tag Archives: Lawrence Durrell

one day there time will surely come

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Dave

Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading →

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whose face did he see?

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dave

There is a paradox to Henry Miller. The two Tropics books are among the foulest books ever written. Cancer is bad enough, but Capricorn gets worse as it goes on and reached depths of vileness which are really indescribable. Miller’s … Continue reading →

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the essential thing is to want to sing

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dave

Having read the first few sentences of Tropic of Cancer, you will remember them. Henry Miller can use the language. He writes strong, biting, memorable, vivid prose. Often it is unjust to begin criticizing a book by taking out its … Continue reading →

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streaming the villa borghese

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dave

When you first start reading Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, it is easy to reach the verdict it was written during a series of lengthy drinking bouts. Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should … Continue reading →

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the republic on the flying trapeze

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dave

the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading →

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collapse of the soul: the flux of the IT

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Dave

He could never really control what he did or what he wrote. Artaud said these defects of form were often rescued from complete nothingness. The raw results attributed to ” a collapse of the soul at its center, a kind … Continue reading →