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Writing from Big Sur, CA, Miller enthusiastically recalls the happy times he and his fellow expatriate enjoyed in Paris when Miller was writing the innovative books he would be known for.
"This year 17 books of mine will be published -- can you imagine such an event." Miller digresses briefly on what were then unpopular pacifist views: "I don't think about the war at all -- except when it will be over." He also reports on the success of his watercolors: "Still using the airbrush technique. I've had my first show here in Hollywood -- first one in Santa Barbara Museum. Earned about $1400 in last few months ... paying off old debts as fast as money comes in." Miller recalls the Paris times he shared with Edgar: "Those were happy days ... I always said so. Nothing is lost." He recalls the occult texts that he and Edgar were then so enthralled with: "Anything on Christ's life after the Resurrection -- the 40 Days?"
Miller asks about the manuscript notebook he gave his friend years before: "Forgot all about the Conversations with David Edgar. Is it any good now? I ask because a publisher asks if he can publish a little work of mine. Would you care to see it printed ever?"
More than 1000 words of shared reminiscence with the man Henry Miller called his best friend in Paris, where he began his literary career. Fine.
Writing from Big Sur, CA, Miller enthusiastically recalls the happy times he and his fellow expatriate enjoyed in Paris when Miller was writing the innovative books he would be known for.
"This year 17 books of mine will be published -- can you imagine such an event." Miller digresses briefly on what were then unpopular pacifist views: "I don't think about the war at all -- except when it will be over." He also reports on the success of his watercolors: "Still using the airbrush technique. I've had my first show here in Hollywood -- first one in Santa Barbara Museum. Earned about $1400 in last few months ... paying off old debts as fast as money comes in." Miller recalls the Paris times he shared with Edgar: "Those were happy days ... I always said so. Nothing is lost." He recalls the occult texts that he and Edgar were then so enthralled with: "Anything on Christ's life after the Resurrection -- the 40 Days?"
Miller asks about the manuscript notebook he gave his friend years before: "Forgot all about the Conversations with David Edgar. Is it any good now? I ask because a publisher asks if he can publish a little work of mine. Would you care to see it printed ever?"
More than 1000 words of shared reminiscence with the man Henry Miller called his best friend in Paris, where he began his literary career. Fine.