Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 10:22:28 -0500
From: Eric Yost <103423.421-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: PLC: Henry Miller and the Academy Who Doesn't Read Him


"& show me if you can lines from Miller up to this standard. It strikes me
that laughing at (T of C, I presume) would only be done with a companion,
and resembles the giddiness of children in the presence of words like
ca-ca, and poo-poo. More to be racked up to an almost pre-sexual hysteria
than by anything really amusing."
g

There are lines from Miller up to this standard, and I'll spend some time
in the next couple days to locate them.  However there is nothing in Miller
as consistently good as Joyce.  And that's not a surprise: they had
entirely different purposes for their art.  

It's like comparing Sviatoslav Richter playing Prokofiev to Fats Waller
playing his own music.  Amazing that people remember such different things
from an author.  In Miller, I found courage, optimism, an adventurous
spirit, even a certain mystic strain.  The sexual episodes are incidental.

I must confess that I prefer Stephen Hero to Portrait of the Artist.  This
quirk may explain much.


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