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dxh's avatar

Totally riveting - that description of the scene in 1930s Paris, the women, the men, the smiles, is gonna stay with me...

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Max V. Carp's avatar

Miller might’ve called Tropic Of Cancer “formless” but I think he meant that it lacked form in the ordinary/established way. It does have a form, and that form is spelled out in the last couple of pages of this great novel where he talks about the river Seine, flowing so quietly “that one hardly notices its presence […] the hills gently girdle it about: its course is fixed.”

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