There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the sligh…

Henry Miller
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There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. ✨ Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). A Henry Miller reader, Riverrun Pr
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