Henry Miller Field Manager 1997 Paradise Pisces American Writer The sex devil, large, luminous, lusty, raunchy, Henry. From his first affair with the older Pauline Chouteau, mother of a tubercular high school boy, Henry's age, to his relationship with Brenda Venus when he was 85, blind in one eye and partially paralyzed, Miller epitomizes the erotic. The history of Miller's cultural standing has had so many ups and downs and ins and outs that were it related to masturbation or fornication, an orgasm would certainly have resulted. Initially Miller was reviled as a pornographer, then he was championed as a writer-hero. Still later he was reviewed, reconsidered and rejected by a new wave of literary commentators and political activists. Most recently, thanks to the efforts of writers like Erica Jong, Miller's reputation is being resurrected.. Artists who deal directly with sexual themes are often controversial. The attempts to neutralize the genders, to dismiss the sexual, seems an ill-fated approach to conquering the neuroses that suppressed sexuality invokes. It's as if the gender-neutrals believe ignoring the sexual will make it unavailable for problem-making. But it is writers like Miller and Sade and Nin and Jong who remind us that the sexual is the central idea animating our lives. It cannot be ignored or neutralized.
Henry Miller- Field Manager Record Year Team Won Lost Pct. 1984 Erotics 60 72 .455 1985 Erotics 94 60 .610 1986 Erotics 70 78 .473 1987 Erotics 77 85 .475 1988 Erotics 70 92 .432 1989 Erotics 76 86 .469 1990 Erotics 81 81 .500 1991 Pisces 75 87 .463 1992 Pisces 80 82 .494 1993 Pisces 78 84 .481 1994 Pisces 88 74 .543 1995 Pisces 87 75 .537 1996 Pisces 88 74 .543 13 Seasons 1024 1030 .499 | |
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