Henry Miller Quotes
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.
Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press, 1934, p. 2.
Niles shared with his close friend his great fear of a Civil War between South and North. He published in Baltimore (Maryland then being a slave state) and saw the slavery issue as leading the nation to national conflict three decades before it actually happened. As a distinguished Southerner he was respected and influential in the North where his Register was widely circulated. He himself however opposed slavery, and this made many of his attempts to prevent civil war ineffective as the more rabid Southerners saw anyone opposed to slavery as an enemy. See his editorial warning about the Civil War: {615640}.
Federal Authorities arrived with press officers and a bevy of reporters and issued statements to the press while there were thousands of people in dire straits with many of them dying with no food, medical care or relocation from flooding water.
Puerto Rico was hit by a hurricane which had a devastating effect on the infrastructure of the island. Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, was frustrated when the Federal response from FEMA and the military was very slow to materialize.
Henry Valentine Miller was an American writer and artist. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and painted watercolors.
