The last instalment of Henry Miller's epic trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Nexus, is widely regarded as one of the most important works of American literature. Miller eloquently recounts his many years as a homeless writer in New York City, his friends, mistresses, and the strange conditions of his existence in it.
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.
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