Henry Miller - No fan of new york
 

"gets worse all the time."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swzQP...layer_embedded

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I thought it was the greatest, coolest city of the world!

I don't know when that was filmed but it looks almost like a studio mock up of the city about a hundred years ago.

As if Paris was/is any different...
Cool vid.

When you're from somewhere, you have a strangely distorted view of a place.

I love hearing old men cuss it up.

henry miller, even in his disgust at NYC, is probably even more disgusted by the mainstream spectacle times square has become.

And when you live thousands of kms away, you know all about it?
haha!

Times Square was obviously my biggest disappointment when i visited NY. Although i did know that it was crap before I went. On the whole though I loved the place.

I will be there next week tuesday and wednesday, or is it wednesday and thursday? cannot remember.

yay!

road trip begins on saturday!!!!!!!!!

Not at all. Distorted was probably the wrong word. What i meant was that someone who grows up in a place has a very intimate understanding of it that people who haven't might not relate to.

Paris is ten times smaller, that's quite a difference.
(but it's an horrible place, it may be a similarity)

Tropic of Cancer. Great book.

Sounds like he wasn't getting laid much at the end.


Paris is horrible, in a good way.

I have to admit that Henry miller is one author I've never been able to get into. I read Capricorn and Cancer but just didn't see it at all. I should give him another go. I read them when I was about 16, which may have been a bit young.

Ok.You meant "subjective".

Yeah, but 'subjective' sounds a bit too dismissive (although admittedly not as bad as 'distorted'). Intimate suggests a more deeper understanding.

tropic of cancer wasnt as enjoyable as id been led to believe

From you, this astonishes me. Miller, I maintain, was like the beats but had a much firmer grip on his subservience to better writers. By which I mean he dicks about with stream of consciousness but doesn't quite turn into the mawkish terror that is Kerouac. He talks like a snake-oil charmer but is just Jewish enough to get away with it - sorry, Burroughs acolytes. Also, he's a bit of a pathetic character, something I've always found lacking from a lot of American writers - someone like Easton-Ellis always heads towards this pseudo-nihilism that just galls.

Ok, so I've just insulted most of your taste in books, but a lot of you really need to stop reading like a 19-year-old.

burroughs is boring

I read Tropics Of Cancer and loved it.

I read Colossus Of Maroussi and couldn't even finish it.

Either I'm a perv, or he is just hit or miss with me.