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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

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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
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Sent
Coffins
Love
City
Flowers
Racket
Life
Sweet
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Defiance
Wall
Wave
Depths
Plumes
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Nails
Glint
Cities
Sky
Everlasting
Loveliest
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Electricity
Telegraph
Death
Flower
Walls
Coffin

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