Miller also gives a fictionalised account. This fictional autobiography explores the author's New York boyhood and adolescence, and his sexual awakening and adventures. It may be that we have kept in mind, during all these years, the recollection of some valley into which we have just looked down for a moment before we lost sight of it in the disorder of the hills it may be that we have lain awake at night, and agreeably tantalised ourselves with the thought of corners we had never turned, or summits we had all but climbed: we shall now be able, as we tell ourselves, to complete all these unfinished pleasures, and pass beyond the barriers that confined our recollections. Companion to Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer which shifts the scene from France to his life in the United States, covering his life in Brooklyn in the 1920s. We shall now have an opportunity of finishing many pleasant excursions, interrupted of yore before our curiosity was fully satisfied. It is thus the southernmost latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.

Often, too, they are places we have visited in former years, or seen briefly in passing by, and kept ever afterwards in pious memory and we please ourselves with the fancy that we shall repeat many vivid and pleasurable sensations, and take up again the thread of our enjoyment in the same spirit as we let it fall. The Tropic of Capricorn (or the Southern Tropic) is the circle of latitude that contains the subsolar point at the December (or southern) solstice. Ordered South (Unabridged) Robert Louis StevensonīY a curious irony of fate, the places to which we are sent when health deserts us are often singularly beautiful.

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