HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY, HENRY! What's become of me? I completely forgot that yesterday was author Henry Miller's birthday! Fortunately, RC remembered at the excellent Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company: A Henry Miller Blog.

His Henry Miller birthday post opens with this dour Christmas dinner scene from the novel Nexus:

To add to my distress, Christmas was almost upon us. It was the season of the year I not only loathed but dreaded. Since attaining manhood I had never known a good Christmas. No matter how I fought against it, Christmas day always found me in the bosom of the family — the melancholy knight wrapped in black armor, forced like every other idiot in Christendom to stuff his belly and listen to the utterly empty babble of his kin.

Poor, poor melancholy knight!
















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