A Henry Miller Moment

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Sat Oct 5 08:14:42 PDT 2002


Been reading Miller's wonderful "The Colossus of Maroussi" and came across this nice little passage, which I thought was reflective of the current mood:

"Madame, there are always two paths to take: one back towards the comfort and security of death, the other forward to nowhere. You would like to fall back amongst your quaint tomb-stones and familiar cemetery walls. Fall back, then, fall deep and fathomless into the ocean of annihilation. Fall back into that bloody torpor which permits idiots to be crowned as kings. Fall back and writhe in torment with the evolutionary worms. I am going on, on past the last black and white squares. The game is played out, the figures have melted away, the lines are frazzled, the board is mildewed. Everything has become barbarous again."

Has it not?

DP

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