HOBO MAGAZINE

Books:

Henry Miller “tropic of Cancer/Capricorn”(1934) (autobiographical novel)“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive!” Wanted: Writers who are willing to be considered the 21st century Henry Miller.” Applicants may be male or female, young or old, formally and or street smart, wise beyond their years and dedicated to the following concepts: autobiographical writing, wisdom literature, cosmic consciousness, self liberation, intense love of life, pursuit of truth, power of language and the brotherhood/sisterhood of man/women. Interested applicants should be intimately familiar with the following writers: Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, Thoreau, Whitman and Emerson, Loa-Tse, Rimbaud, D.H.Lawrence, Knut Hamson, Mark Twain, William Blake, Ramakrishna, john Cowper Powys, D.T. Suzuki, Loe Tolstoy, Aurelius and Petonius. Successful interviewees will be able to provide articulate comment on the following quotes from Mr. Miller: “We create our fate.” “Forget, forgive, renounce, abdicate.” “Live the good life instantly, it’s now or never and always has been.” “Change your life.” “But the struggle to emancipate himself, that is, to liberate himself from the prison of his own making, that is for the supreme making.” The short list will be those who agree with the following beliefs: Only aim in life is to live it. Individuals create new frontiers. Act according to your beliefs. Find your life force. Don’t become a prisoner of status or work. Give literature back to life. Everyone interested in this position will have read Henry Millers “Tropic of Cancer” and Tropic of Capricorn. They will know that Tropic of cancer’s ranking as the 50th greatest novel to ever be written in the English language doesn’t do justice to the greatest undiscovered joyride through the varieties of self written, Period! As Miller quotes Emerson : Life consists in what a man is thinking all day.” We advise all job seekers to read this literary song and dance and think about it. Position will be posted until further notice. {Henry Miller “Tropic of Cancer” Grove press 1961}Fyodor Dostoevsky “Notes From the Underground” 1864 (Novella)“I am a sick man… I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my liver! ”Ever felt completely isolated and alienated? Ever been really angry that you live in a society that insists two plus two must equal four? Do you ever feel like thinking or doing anything is a waste of time? Have you finally realized the purpose of life is to suffer and be bored? No? Well you should read Dostoevsky’s “Note From Underground” and find out what real solitude actually feels like. Too much choice is a major burden. Personality and freedom create a “metaphysical despair.” Enlightening self-interest is a fallacy because we don’t always act according to our best interests. Consciousness leads to separation. “Can a thinking man have any self-respect whatsoever? All this and more in a book that is as edifying as it is entertaining. The underground man is a product of both civilization and abstraction. He is the original anti-hero who humiliates others before they can humiliate him. He is the thinking individual who suspects that ignorance is bliss. He is the embodiment of modern absurdity and precursor to the existential philosophy of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Camus and Satre. The underground man is the genesis of all of Dostoevsky’s great characters in the four major novels that follow. There are four major questions that form our existence. Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? We all catch glimpses that provide partial answers but the overall mystery remains. The underground man is the ultimate voice of the man who can’t stop thinking about stuff we do our best to ignore. What Dostoevsky provides is a highly readable and equally amusing rant that, if nothing else, will remind you that you’re not nearly as alienated as you think you are. “Last of all gentlemen; it is best to do nothing! The best is conscious inertia! So long live the underground! {Fyodor Dostoevsky “the Double” “Notes from Underground” Penguin classics 1987}