Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" (22 page)

Twain, Mark: literary impact of,
41
,
46
-47; Mississippi River as subject of,
49
,
54
,
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; occupations of,
50
; and profanity,
53
-54; and talk,
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,
50
,
52
-54,
55
,
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,
222
n13; white suits of, iii —works of:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
49,
50
-53;
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
49,
50
;
The Innocents Abroad,
47-49,
110
-11 ;
Life on the Mississippi,
49,
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; “ 1601”,
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-56

Van Gogh, Vincent,
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-23 n16

Venereal disease,
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,
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,
150
,
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,
207

Wall Street crash,
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War of 1812,
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,
37

Warren, Robert Penn,
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-21 n8

Washington, George,
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,
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Watercolors,
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,
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,
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-17

Western Union, HM as employment manager,
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,
95
-97,
104

Whitman, Walt: HM taking
Leaves of Grass
to Paris,
7
,
15
-16,
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; as influence on HM,
46
,
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,
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,
186
-87,
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;
Leaves of Grass,
7,
15
-16,
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,
49
-50,
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; on objects,
10
; and Thoreau,
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-46

Whittier, John Greenleaf,
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Wilderness: of America,
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-26,
33
-34,
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,
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,
208
; Old World as HM’s wilderness,
128
.
See also
Frontier experience

Wilderness Road,
34

Wolcott Hotel,
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Wolfe, Thomas,
183

Women: HM’s attitude toward,
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-61 ,
74
-75,
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,
137
-38.
See also
Sexuality

World War I,
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,
125
-26,
134

World War II,
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Writing: and HM’s advice from Fraenkel,
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; HM’s artistic integrity,
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,
128
-29,
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,
147
; HM’s aspirations,
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,
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,
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-90,
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,
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,
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-98,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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-55,
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; and HM’s creativity,
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,
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; and HM’s disparate images,
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; HM’s exploration of unconventional methods,
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; HM’s identity as writer,
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; and HM’s improvisation,
152
-53;
HM’s literary pretensions,
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,
126
-27,
156
; and HM’s notes,
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,
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,
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,
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,
127
,
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,
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,
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,
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; and HM’s plain language,
144
; and HM’s realistic literature,
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,
143
; and HM’s remembering,
9
-11 ,
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; HM’s reproduction of art in,
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; HM’s revisions,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; and HM’s self-pity,
113
; and HM’s solitude,
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-24,
136
; HM’s stories,
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-41; HM’s talent and,
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,
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,
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; HM’s work as screenwriter,
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; Nin on HM without writing,
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-70; Nin’s opinion of HM’s writing,
164
-65,
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,
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,
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; and Nin’s relationship with HM,
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; at typewriter,
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,
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,
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,
159
-60,
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n22

You, Dominique,
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Zadkine, Ossip,
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-36

Le Zeyer,
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n21