![]() He never received a word of acknowledgment from the strange patron. He did not want to touch upon any of the material he planned to write about for his real work, so he was condemned to force his inventions and his mood. ![]() ![]() He entered into it as an experiment, and it seemed easy at first. He invented wild stories which we laughed over. He could not tell much about his client except that he was interested in erotica. He bought a manuscript from Henry and then suggested that he write something for one of his old and wealthy clients. He rebelled because his mood of the moment was the opposite of Rabelaisian, because writing to order was a castrating occupation, because to be writing with a voyeur at the keyhole took all the spontaneity and pleasure out of his fanciful adventures. It seemed like a Dantesque punishment to condemn Henry to write erotica at a dollar a page. ![]() Postscript (literary analysis &c.) - § - PrefaceĪ book collector offered Henry Miller a hundred dollars a month to write erotic stories. ![]()
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