He would be - without a doubt - my favorite friend, and I'd cling to him everywhere just to hear him talk. Henry Miller is the only artist i am really regret that I'd never meet him. Update: All the starred words I just googled and found all the definitions!!! Oddly satisfying ❤. The starred words are the ones I could not define. Jeremiad, sisyphean, lied, horripilation, somnolence, efflorescence, plangent, ken, asperity, sorties, peregrinations, dithyrambs, colloquies, veridical, prestidigitator, lugubrious, semaphore, prate, cymbalon, bagatelle, mufti, pederasts, anent, sally, purlieus, fettle, jackanapes, palaver, celerity, sagacity, jocosely, cordon, viands, quorum, euchre, velleity, brogans, runneled, cortege, bantam, metempsychosis, limitrophe, steppes, verdure, lilliputian, eclosion, amanuensis, geodetic, quaternary, decan, thaumaturgists, fecund, circumlocutiousness (led me to prolix which I had to look up as well), acephalic, cantharides, crinology*, cacchination*, coterminous, cicerone, cimex (bedbug yuck!), lectularis*, cognomen, pasha, caparisoned, panoplies, verdigris, taboret, ructions, halvah, kirschwasser, strega, russe*, inveigle, arnica, cosmocrator, quoits, prepollent, parlous, anacoluthon, sesquipedalian (actually means one who uses long words LOL), gimcrack, socdolager*, gazabo, couvert, bonhomie, numismatics, celesta, telesme*, alderman, wend, thoracic, ablatives, gerundives, postprandial, palliation, dint, spifflicated, quondam, rambla, souks, encysted, funicular, bobolink, shandygaff, hodcarrier (hod was in the dictionary but not hodcarrier), tyro, chiffonier, auk, foraminifera, plaidoyer*, abstruse, samovar, porphyry, ebullition and percipience. I planned to look them all up later on in my huge old crumbling dictionary. So much so that I kept a list of all the words he used that I had never seen before. What impressed me the most was Miller's vocabulary. There was little to no sex in this book! I know it's all saved for Sexus, but those sex scenes were so well written and so spectacularly erotic that I thought for sure some of that might seep into Plexus but no such luck. #Plexus 2 download fullI planned to look them all up l I'm waiting until I finish the entire trilogy to write my full review. I'm waiting until I finish the entire trilogy to write my full review. So many have a potential and so few live up to it, “For many are called, but few are chosen.”. But they had intellect and they had enthusiasm, and they were all so sincere, so avid, that sometimes I wonder if the music we made might not have rivalled the chamber music which issued from the sacred quarters of the masters. Most of them were engineers, architects, physicians, chemists, teachers, lawyers. They loved to discuss art, all the arts, but they themselves had no thought of becoming artists. To be sure, none of my companions of those days ever dreamed of becoming a figure in the world of art. Often I have wondered, after reading about evenings with Mallarme, or with Joyce, or with Max Jacob, let us say, how these sessions of ours compared. They loved to discuss art, all the arts, but they themselves had no thought o Metaphorically speaking the world is a real network of nerves, blood vessels and lymphatics: a plexus.Īnd Henry Miller is a human ganglion placed inside this huge Plexus… And Henry Miller is a human ganglion placed inside this huge Plexus… Often I have wondered, after reading about evenings with Mallarme, or with Joyce, or with Max Jacob, let us say, how these sessions of ours compared. Metaphorically speaking the world is a real network of nerves, blood vessels and lymphatics: a plexus.
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