"The healthy Gentile"

[myrna minkoff]

"There must be something in a healthy Gentile that excites the Jewish mind, like when he sees some sour black bread."

Henry Miller and Crazy Mike both born in the 19th century, contemporaries, one a sick Jew the other a healthy Gentile.


My father my self. Long have I lived in dread of being his son.

[tinkerjack]

"I sometimes ask myself how it happens that I attract nothing but crackbrained individuals, neurasthenics, neurotics, psychopaths—and Jews especially." There must be something in a healthy Gentile that excites the Jewish mind..." Tropic of Cancer