Miller

grateful

perhaps if not for Nin no Miller

                                  queer

he didnt find her until a freshman in college in the library exhausted by Biology needing respite a changeup saw a palindrome author on a bindingspine

                                       The Four-Chambered Heart  beside it House of Incest        biology

opening it

             to his surprise a woman

he had not read a woman writer until then

    prejudiced

not really

           read science fiction adventure Hemingway Dos Passos Durrell  Steinbeck  Conrad  Twain  Algren  Joyce classics  Iliad Odyssey  Dante

not skirts

    was uninformed

an unforced error

in judgment

Miller

       “Even if it last for only a few moments, the privilege of looking at the world as a spectacle of unending life and not as a repository of persons, creatures and objects to be impressed into our service, is something never to be forgotten.”

had to be after Saturday,  19  1. 92

1216,  Sunday,  17  11. 24