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Arthur Hoyle

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During the 1990s I began reading Henry Miller. I was drawn to his work and his life story, and before I retired from a career in education I began research for my biography of him, The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur. My book focuses on his years living in Big Sur, California, where he settled after his return from Europe in 1940 and wrote many of his most important books. My biography of him was published through Skyhorse/Arcade in March 2014.

My second non-fiction book, "Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain," was published on March 17, 2020 by Sunbury Press. This book takes the reader on a journey across American history through the lives of exemplary men and women who challenged the prevailing customs an ...more

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Henry Miller on War

War is much in the news these days, to the great distress of the world. On every continent on Earth some form of violence is expressing our species capacity for hatred and cruelty. What did Henry Miller think of war and how it could be avoided?
Miller regarded war as the ultimate expression of anti-life. In the midst of World War Two, at the urging of his devoted follower Bern Porter, Miller wrote Read more of this blog post »

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Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake

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“begin all over again. Cancer then is the apogee of death in life, as Capricorn is of life in death. The two symbols are found in geography as tropics (which is another word for hieroglyphics), Cancer lying above the equator and Capricorn below. Myself am trying to walk the hair line which separates the two. The line is only imaginary—there is no boundary line to reality.”
― Arthur Hoyle, The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur

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“O LAKE OF LIGHT” Risen from the milky sward I saw the one I love with flower And on her breast an unborn moon O wondrous moon! O lake of light! The grass so green is turning white O moon, O wondrous lake of light! Milk of fire upon her tongue Drew birds of jade and betel gum Run river run! The world of late grown small Now achieves its just dimension The one I love grown big with flower Wheels within the lunar hour Birds of jade in milky fire Mitigate the heart’s desire Then run, river, run, as runs the sun For none are born except the one That lies upon the breast undone The moon unborn is chill as night The heart is like a lake of light Flower, moon, milk of fire These together do conspire Take wing, strange birds, take wing! —Henry Miller”
― Arthur Hoyle, The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur

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“In the street you learn what human beings really are; otherwise, or afterwards, you invent them. What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.”
― Arthur Hoyle, The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur

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“Peace! It's wonderful!”
― Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye

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“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

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“Au fond, les gens ne lisent pas ; ou, s'ils lisent, ils ne comprennent pas ; ou, s'ils comprennent, ils oublient.”
― Henry Miller, Sexus

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“To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way.”
― Henry Miller, Sexus

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