If I try to recall my life in New York I get a few splintered - TopicsExpress

If I try to recall my life in New York I get a few splintered fragments, nightmarish and covered with verdigris. It seems as if my own proper existence had come to an end somewhere, just where exactly I cant make out. Im not an American any more, nor a New Yorker, and even less a European, or a Parisian. I havent any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. Im neither for nor against. Im a neutral. --Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer