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TROPIC OF CAPRICORN (348 pp.)-Henry Miller-Grove Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tropic B | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

Henry Miller is still the world's most smuggled author-no Sarah Lawrence girl would think of returning to the temperate zones from her junior year abroad without a copy of his still-banned Tropic of Capricorn or Rosy Crucifixion hidden in the soiled laundry. But he is also the author most often skipped. That is to say, the almost unvarying gait for getting through one of Miller's books is: read four pages, skip four pages. Cynics will suggest that this is because the dirty passages in the Tropics or Sexus, Nexus and Plexus come at four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dry Pornographer | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...immediate danger of the world ending this weekend lessened a bit at 7:17 this morning, when the sun, moon, and five planets ended their rendezvous in the Zodiacal House of Capricorn...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: World Has Not Ended Yet This Morning | 2/5/1962 | See Source »

Although the seven heavenly bodies have met in Capricorn before (1821), and have also been so very close to each other before (1186), the entire combination of events, including the eclipse, has not happened for 5000 years. At that time, according to a Hindu epic poem, a war wreaked widespread death and destruction...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: World Has Not Ended Yet This Morning | 2/5/1962 | See Source »

...Astrology divides the zodiac (the central band of the heavens that contains the paths of the sun, moon and planets) longitudinally into twelve successive parts, each named, like Capricorn, for the most notable constellation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Concatenation of Calamities | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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