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When I read Henry Miller
I feel freer and more trapped.
What's changed? Everything
and notation. The American
writer's conundrums remain
desire, distraction, and groups.
The fitting room is in Paris 
and New York is where you
wear it. Duck soup with a side
of how did I get here? Saul Bellow
runs the crowd a little tighter
to the earlier expectations, but
not for lack of breaking things.