Books like A Devil in Paradise

Sometimes I think my obsession with Henry Miller is a passing phase, a youthful indulgence that I will, or have grown out of, only to find out that he is still perhaps my favorite author of the 20th Century."A Devil in Paradise", which is a booklet piece excerpted from "Big Sur and The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch", is a quick little hundred page read about one of Miller's associates from Montparnasse back in the mid-thirties. His style is magnificent, seeming so simple and fluent that my eyes just follow the words across the page, page after page, until sometime this morning at 2am I had finished it, and felt a small amount of sadness that my good friend Miller and I were so soon parting company again.