Yeah, what you said. But can I be more icked by the quoting of Miller in general, please?
It's not like I think he shouldn't be quoted or anything, no more or less than FScottF or anything, but, really, I never get why any one thinks him important.
Like Bret Easton Ellis, or Hemingway; I just don't get it.
Catherine
----- Original Message ----- From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> Date: Sunday, October 6, 2002 7:33 am Subject: Re: A Henry Miller Moment [and, sort of, blogging]
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> Catherine Driscoll wrote:
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> > Dennis replies:
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> > > "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."
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> > This Miller too? I continue to think he needed an ecounter with the
> > being-censored-does-not-mean-you-are-any-good fairy.
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> One problem with the Miller quote is that it is a rather banal
> tautology, equally true at almost any time or any place in recorded
> history. It's got about as much bite as "Oh that tiger scares me." It
> has a nice prose rhythm, but nice prose rhythms are plentiful, and can
> be found with less banal content.
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> Carrol
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