LITERATURE: Tropic of Cancer – Intro & Preface
Made the mistake of reading the Introduction (by Karl Shapiro) and Preface (by Anais Nin) or at least skimming through it before I realized what I was doing.
I don’t like to read someone else’s notion of what a book is about, but rather take it on its own and then, if curious enough, will seek out reviews and essays to see what I may have missed in the reading. Or, to find what type of mind created such ideas.
So today I jump right in where Henry Miller wanted me to: the beginning of his story.
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