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Recovering from surgery, Author Henry Miller, 82, likes to receive visitors- particularly fellow writers-at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where he lives in quiet, bourgeois comfort. Recently Lawrence Durrell, 62, author of The Alexandria Quartet, dropped in and lounged on Miller's bed, reminiscing. Miller, whose Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn shocked a generation some 40 years ago, said that while he had advanced ideas about sex, he does not approve of the even more radical notions of women's liberation. Denying that he is a misogynist, he said, "I really love women...
...think that fundamentally the critic and the director are enemies--and that's the way it's supposed to be. They each have an important job to do, but they can do it best with absolutely no contact between them. Joseph Strick (director of The Balcony, Ulysses, and The Tropic of Cancer...
...speaker at the American Booksellers Association convention in Los Angeles said he preferred obscenity because it is more "forthright." In fact, "pornography is killing sex." Not too surprising remarks from an octogenarian, except that the speaker happened to be Henry Miller, the granddaddy of the erotic novel (Tropic of Cancer). Skinflick Star Linda Lovelace, a fellow author (at 22 she has already written her autobiography) disagreed: "Sex was dead and films like Deep Throat are bringing it back to life...
...awoke. Her eyes bright open, and aching with fettered tears. Her eyes searching to understand where she might be; kneeling and praying in the cruel tropic rain. She was turned toward a wall, now, but this room was black with late night shadows. Wall? What wall? She stretched out her hand, preparing to turn over, and felt surprise burn up her arm like electricity as she touched a thigh. Whose thigh...
...much private bureaucracy." Nor has he limited his political practice (which earns him no more than about $30,000 a year) to left-wing cases. He also won the reinstatement of Julian Bond to the Georgia legislature, and he overturned the ban on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer...