"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself." ~ Henry Miller (Quoted by Una Tentazione) In his sleep Melissa was talking to him about higher mathematics, about the marvels she was learning with her new teacher. Her new interest in physics amazed him, his recollection … Continue reading #FiveSentenceFiction: Devotion
Henry Miller
From the very roots…
Adventures In American Writing
The Frontiers of the boundless future,
” I am writing a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and I am against manifestoes as a matter of principles, as I am also against principles…
I write this manifesto to show that one may perform opposed actions together, in a single fresh respiration.
I am against action and for continual contradiction, for affirmation also, I am neither for nor against and I do not explain for I hate good sense….
There is a literature which does not reach the voracious mass. The work of creators, sprung from a real necessity on the part of the author, and for himself. Consciousness of a supreme egotism where the stars waste away…
Each page must explode, either with the profoundly serious and heavy, the whirlwind, the dizziness, the new, the eternal, with the overwhelming hoax, with an enthusiasm for principles or with…
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A two-day break…
Thought it was time for a break. March was a busy month, plenty to read and more writing. And a wedding! We enjoyed the long walks, and in recent weeks the beautiful weather. We'll find some light rain in Paris on Wednesday. Then we'll be visiting my childhood place (Happy days in Clichy...) Have a … Continue reading A two-day break…