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Funny - I just came across a reference in Jonathan Swift's religious satire, A Tale of a Tub to the Rosy Cross or the Rosicrucians. Any connection there to Miller's themes in this series? I've only read Tropic of Cancer, and too long ago to remember much.

Fionnuala wrote: "Funny - I just came across a reference in Jonathan Swift's religious satire, A Tale of a Tub to the Rosy Cross or the Rosicrucians. Any connection there to Miller's themes in this ser..."

No, there was no obvious connection. His idea was simply that his sufferings were the cause of his rebirth (like a flower), though Miller did always go in for a certain pop-mysticism, that used to drive me nuts.
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Any particular reason why you rate TRC higher? I recently re-read two of the Cancer three and thoroughly enjoyed them on a level far more stimulating than when I read them first at uni.

Ian wrote: "Any particular reason why you rate TRC higher? I recently re-read two of the Cancer three and thoroughly enjoyed them on a level far more stimulating than when I read them first at uni."

I found the tropics somewhat tiresome and overblown (this time around) - but TRC (that long time ago around) utterly true.

Miller himself, in defending himself against criticisms of TRC said, simply -- I don't care if it's good writing - it is simply true.

What I mean, of course, is not that it was, necessarily, true of him (he often stretched the truth...), but that it was true of me.

And so I know that it was, therefore, also true of him.

A rather sorry answer, no doubt...

Thanks. "True of me" is actually a beautiful answer. If TRC is even better, then I have much to look forward to. I was afraid it might be inferior.