Status Updates From The Tropic of Cancer

“In Whitman the whole American scene comes to life,” pg 191

“ a world that produces ecstasy and not dry farts.” Pg 207

“The race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.”pg 205

Henry is hungry and walking and sometimes remembers his wife