RE: Henry Miller books
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Every man has his own destiny...the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads.”
“It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance!”
- Tropic of Cancer
—Henry Miller
I didn’t know this about Henry Miller:
“In the spring of 1927, Miller was living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights with his second wife June Miller and her lover, Jean Kronski. He had recently obtained a new job working for the Parks Department.”
Jerry’s cousin Jeffrey worked for the Parks Department too!