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Word: sexus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much more interested in writing fiction. He seems incapable of composing more than half a dozen pages of narrative without dribbling off into the cosmic. In the present collection-largely a sampling of the literary glue that holds together the naughty passages of such works as Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, and Plexus-he interrupts a reasonably interesting travel piece to proclaim that "we are to know one day what it is to have life eternal-when we have ceased to murder." Such gaseous evangelizing, in support of love, life and art, and in denunciation of the sorry life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miller Expurgated | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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