![]() ![]() ![]() I had a sort of vague premonition that I would not reach the Bastille without being taken in tow by one of these buzzards. As I say, it was a spring day and the few francs my wife had scraped up to cable me were jingling in my pocket. Nothing to distinguish her from the other trollops who met each afternoon and evening at the Cafe de l’Elephant. There was nothing to tell me so from her appearance. Although Miller’s work is famously “dick-centric,” the passage that stuck with Gaitskill all these years later was about a prostitute named Germaine who spoke of her vagina with great admiration as an object “ she prized above everything in the world.” Over the last nine decades, many have called Miller’s work misogynist, but to Gaitskill, Germaine was a feminist, a sex-positive icon before the term existed. ![]() Novelist and short-story writer Mary Gaitskill, author of, most recently, This Is Pleasure, selects a passage from Henry Miller’s 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer. ![]()
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