At the age of twelve, the protagonist of this work farts beside his friend's coffin to show his indifference, and he also rec
At the age of twelve, the protagonist of this work farts beside his friend's coffin to show his indifference, and he also recalls an incident from childhood in which he and his cousin Gene killed a boy in a gang fight and were simply forgiven by his Aunt Caroline, who gave them rye bread. The protagonist's father dies from withdrawal after giving up alcohol, and the protagonist befriends a man who renounces both of the men who are possibly his father, Roy Hamilton. The protagonist's lover Valeska commits suicide after their brief affair while he works hiring and firing crazed messengers along with the clerks Kronski and Hymie at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company. The protagonist declares his wish to become a hermaphrodite after relating his fantasies about the Dark Lady, Mara, a reworking from an earlier novel of the narrator's unseen wife Mona. FTP, name this sequel to Tropic of Cancer written by Henry Miller.
At the age of twelve, the protagonist of this work farts beside his friend's coffin to show his indifference, and he also recalls an incident from childhood in which he and his cousin Gene killed a boy in a gang fight and were simply forgiven by his Aunt Caroline, who gave them rye bread.
{Tropic of Capricorn}