Tropic of cancer book buy5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Read a bit more of the book and feel Miller’s passion for LIFE: Listen - I can tell you that this classic book is raunchy and still keep my schoolteacher cred: Tropic of Cancer is firmly ensconced at number 50 of the Modern Library Association’s “ 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century” (which, as a good little English teacher, I am slowly consuming). 1-2) Boys playing on an island on the Mekong River.ĪHHH!!! YES!!! That was it! I hugged and kissed the musty book, felt my spirits rise like crazy, then continued reading as Miller veered from G-Rated to a literary NC-17. ![]() … I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.” (p. There are no more books to be written, thank God. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. “It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I nestled on the beach that afternoon and opened the breast-adorned cover. ![]() I was lonely, directionless, and trapped by inertia in Couple-World Island because all I wanted to do was write, write, write… though I wasn’t quite sure where all my typed words were getting me. Two months ago in Ko Lanta, Thailand, I bought this used copy of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer for the exorbitant price of $7. Holding on to the elephant like I held on to my book. ![]()
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