On The Road With Al and Ivy: Blog

Episode 4 of the On The Road With Al & Ivy Podcast is now live! YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=muDkgVRj0og&si=3vU-XGkN0Pn4rqqy Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alhanda/episodes/On-The-Road-With-Al--Ivy-Episode-4-e2kksd2 Also on Apple, Amazon Music, i Heart Radio, and Pocket Casts Topics: The book "Gone To Texas (aka Josie Wales) by Forest Carter, a Homeless Woman's hard choice, outlaw protocols, value of friendship and knowing what's important. Music: Handa-McGraw International: Joyous Noise At The Burnside Church/Sunday's Moon/Maximum Delta Dirge/Interstellar Blowout Mark McGraw: Water Into Wine Time #podcast #josiewales #homeless #books #reviews #music #westerns Now live on Kindle Unlimited  Link: https://www .amazon.com/dp/B0FGWKK19K

"I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions." - Henry Miller (Tropic Of Cancer) "But get hold of Tropic of Cancer, get hold of Black Spring and read especially the first hundred pages. They give you an idea of what can still be done, even at this late date, with English prose. In them, English is treated as a spoken language, but spoken without fear..." - George Orwell (Essay: Inside The Whale) I look at Tropic Of Cancer in 2019 and have to think; these days the internet would be eating Henry Miller's flesh, or doing it's best to ban the book without being so uncool as to actually openly proscribe it. Which isn't an indictment of Miller, as the same thing would happen to Jesus or Buddha if they had an online presence. It's a book that's been canonized like an ancient Saint, kept on a virtual shelf and treated as a sacred work that everyone knows is l...