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...second day in the obscenity trial of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer opened yesterday with a strange request from a defense lawyer...
...statement read by London, Rosset called the issue of Tropic of Cancer's obscenity irrelevant. The real issue is "whether Henry Miller wrote as a serious artist and produced a work of literary merit." London said he agreed with Rosset "in principle," but felt that he should be allowed to present the defense as he saw it. In effect, Rosset was saying that the case ought to rest solely on Grove Press' constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments...
While agreeing with Rosset that "any law purporting to suppress a book is unconstitutional," London was nonetheless prepared to defend Tropic of Cancer against the Attorney General's charge...
...first day in court, Assistant Attorney General Leo Sontag Ll.B. '48 had rested the Commonwealth's case with a presentation of Tropic as his prime exhibit. Sontag feels that he needs no witnesses to establish the book's obscenity. Thus the trial consists almost entirely of examination and cross-examination of the defense's witnesses...
Schorer praised Tropic of Cancer for its energy, and its theme: "the value of life exists in the act of living." The book is a work of art written in the spirit of ant art, he said; the autobiographical "I" divests himself of all, in order to live, just as Miller the writer destroys literary convention in order to write...