For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.

ISBN 0-8112-0116-3

Sunday after the War Norfolk CT: New Directions 1944. Hamlet Volume II with Michael Fraenkel New York: Carrefour 1941. First Impressions of Greece Santa Barbara CA: Capra Press 1973.

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26 1891 – June 7 1980) was an American writer and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel autobiography social criticism philosophical reflection surrealist free association and mysticism one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional.