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The city grows like a cancer I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
Men
Eyes
Sun
Eats
Like
Dies
Eating
Eventually
Eye
Therefore
Red
White
City
Mouth
Order
Close
Cancer
Become
Grow
Mouths
Louse
Must
Cities
Deeper
Starve
Going
Grows
Ears
Insatiable

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