![]() ![]() ![]() I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Millers masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. But laugh, Anaïs, I love to hear you laugh. I love women, or life, too much - which it is, I don't know. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal - it's not in me. ![]() I can't fool you - and yet I would like to. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying - "you could fool me, I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. You come and the time slips away in a dream. “Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. ![]()
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