Tropic of Cancer discussion

I finished the book but I don't understand why henry miller named the book tropic of cancer.and moreover there's tropic of capricorn.I started reading it.

"It was because to me cancer symbolizes the disease of civilization, the endpoint of the wrong path, the necessity to change course radically, to start completely over from scratch.” ~Henry Miller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic_o...

Catherine wrote: "http://cosmotc.blogspot.com/2008/08/n...

Explained quite well."

thanks a lot,
this blog is great!!

Miller's explanation is interesting, but incomplete (the works of art have often this strange habit to transcend even their creators' intentions ). For me, it's an oxymoron, resulting from the geographical definition that stresses the first term (sun at its zenith, when it is in its full splendor) and Miller's explanation that emphasizes the second (the civilization disease) in order to give another name to Paris, the city of the glory and the fall, the artist's paradise and inferno...

because i am not interested in literature