… Lechery à la Grecque | Standpoint. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
I don't remember feeling that way about Miller, but I loved the book. So did my wife, and she's been to Greece. Miller never pretends to be better than he is. Or to think less of himself than he does.
It struck me after some reading of Miller that he would have done well with a chair in literature at a land-grant university, say Purdue: all his metaphors for male sexuality are hyrdaulic, and all his metaphors for female sexuality agronomic.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty interesting observation. He is, of course, an uneven writer. I think Tropic of Capricorn, about his growing in Brooklyn, is vastly better than Tropic of Cancer. Van Wyck Brooks thought The Colossus of marquis was his best book, and it may well be.
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