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Drifting with Time and Fighting with Shadows  

normalisoktoo 54M
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10/14/2014 8:33 pm
Drifting with Time and Fighting with Shadows

... that line is adapted from Anaïs Nin in her Preface to Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer .

Miller wasn't published until his early 40's; and when he finally was... he was banned in America and England (even though he was an American - albeit living in Paris at the time) for obscenity. Well... maybe in those days some of those words he wrote were, indeed, obscene. But whatever judge made that ruling would be frothing out of every pore if he read half of what was online here.

I mentioned before that I was suffering through Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . For the first time in like ten or twelve years, I had to put a book down, unread. If anyone has insight as to how fantastic it is after 60 or more pages, please enlighten me. I've read plenty of Joyce's other works. I'm sure I'll finish it some other time.

Bumbling through a bookstore this afternoon, I found a copy of Tropic of Cancer coupled with two other novels from Miller. I CANNOT PUT IT DOWN! He writes this story (fantasy?) like a dream-sequence mixed with strong liquor.

Stream of consciousness, or rather "surreal free-association" and a dash of mysticism combined with a one-man<b> philosophy. </font></b>Just what I needed to meet my "page quota" for the month. I have admired this man from afar ever since I saw the film Henry & June, but I finally have a copy (of three total novels in one book!) that I can call my own and exercise my imagination with.

Forgive me, but I am excited.

I also found two other tomes I had been seeking for over a month. I'll keep their titles to myself cuz I realize these kinds of details can become tiresome, if not boring, to the non-reader. But then again... what kind of person checking out my blog is a non-reader?

Bam! There's the question for the night.

What have YOU been reading (besides blogs) that has been interesting, curious or, possibly arousing?

What kinds of books, or better, authors, attract your mind?

Lastly... why?

normalisoktoo 54M

10/14/2014 10:53 pm

 Thank you, sir.

Poke around; looking forward to seeing you again.


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