I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

ISBN 0-8112-0116-3

Sunday after the War Norfolk CT: New Directions 1944. Hamlet Volume II with Michael Fraenkel New York: Carrefour 1941. First Impressions of Greece Santa Barbara CA: Capra Press 1973.

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26 1891 – June 7 1980) was an American writer and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel autobiography social criticism philosophical reflection surrealist free association and mysticism one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional.