Own morality, all men would demand government control of all aspects of In a world where each man got to create his Gods, but if he's decided that coveting his neighbor's wife is okay, I I'm not all that worried that Ed down the street worships six different You know which part's the other guy kept and which he threw out. Your own moral code, or with everyone concocting his/her own, is how do Has served us well for thousands of years. Golden Rule are a simple enough formulation for a thorough moral code which There is nothing more dangerous to humankind than those who reject GodĪnd Western Judeo-Christian morality. In the mistaken belief that our petty bourgeois morality needed to be assaultedĪnd broken down before man could be truly free. He narrates his libidinous exploits in great detail Like DH Lawrence, Miller thought that there was something profound lurking It is but, worse than that is the fact that it sucks. In the States for a long time because it was considered pornographic, which Most of Hemingway to the worst of Fitzgerald. In the early 30's, a milieu which produced so much awful fiction, from (with bragging thrown in) novel concerns Miller's carousing around Paris Well, that's a pleasant sentiment, eh? This completely autobiographical Kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a Paperback (Chinese) (April 1st, 2013): $29.A libel, slander, defamation of character.

Brownworth, The Baltimore Sun Product Details Undeniably salacious but nevertheless serious and important literature, Millers novel with its ribald sexuality still provokes (and makes feminist hairs stand on end.) Victoria A.

One of the most remarkable, most truly original authors of this or any age. Anais NinĪmerican literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done. Here is a book which, if such a thing were possible, might restore our appetite for the fundamental realities. There is an eager vitality and exuberance to the writing which is exhilarating a rush of spirit into the world as though all the sparkling wines have been uncorked at once we watchfully hear the language skip, whoop and wheel across Millers page.

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