henry miller and thingness

Part One: The Oranges of the Millennium

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That is can be, and is, all these at one and the same time. (23)

Part Two: Peace and Solitude: A Potpourri

If you can’t give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! (56)

Light is the one thing we cannot steal, imitate, or even counterfeit. (95)

You can’t slash mountains to ribbons, nor cut the sky to pieces, nor flatten a wave with the broadest sword. (146)

- excerpts from "Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch," Henry Miller