“Opus Pistorum” (porno) by Henry Miller; (July 28, 2009)
I am reading a French translation of “Opus Pistorum” by Henry Miller and I still don’t know what opus pistorum means but the book is plainly porno. The epilogue explains how this book came to be published. Henry Miller visited Larry Edmunds’ library in Hollywood (California) in 1940. Miller had spent many years in Paris and knew very few people in California. Milton Luboviski was partner in the library and used to offer Miller some money and places to bunk. By 1941 Luboviski started selling porno manuscripts for clients in the movie industry such as Joseph Mankiewicz, Julian Johnson, Daniele Amfitheatrol, Billy Wilder, Frederick Hollander, and Henry Blanke…
Henry Miller proposed to write short porno stories that should sell for one dollar per page; Luboviski was to keep the rights of the stories. After a few months the stories were gathered in a book that Miler titled “Opus Pistorum”. Luboviski typed 5 copies in 1942 and sold four of them and he saved the original.
When in need of money and had multiple exotic personal experiences and can write with humor then writing porno manuscripts is a legitimate business. I will offer a few excerpts and will skip the porno details. Miller calls his tail or prick John Thursday (Jean Jeudi). The opening pages set the tones of the porno short stories.
“I have been living in Paris for so long that I no longer am surprised of anything. Paris is not like New York; you don’t need to deliberately seek adventures. Life flushes you out in unbelievable locations and all kinds of incredible surprises track you down. I am visiting a shop and the 13 years old girls is masturbating her dad and then sucking ravenously his tail…”
“Her asshole agitates; it is alive; it contracts and breathes. You might not discover the secret of the universe through that path but it is far more exciting than observing your own navel.”
“Alexandra converted into Catholicism and her priest confessor initiated her to worshiping the devil too. Alexandra got deeply involved in mysticism and exotic cults and confessed to Miller that devils would appear in her dreams pretty alive. All the devils were gorgeous young men; a few had three sexual functioning tails; one would be inserted in the mouth, another in the cunt, and the third would enter the rectum and extends to sniff the tail in the mouth… Miller or (Alf in the stories) participated as witness to one of the devils’ worshiping sessions. The priest entered in his normal ceremonial attire; he was also wearing a red hat with two corns. A lady undressed and lied on the officiating table; the priests slaughtered a coq and let the blood drip and smear the naked body. A wood statue of the devil was carried inside with a tail ejecting red wine when activated by sucking. An orgy followed led by the priest. It was not outrageous or out of the normal since no human sacrifices was offered.”
“Toots confessed that she was initiated by a Chinaman. Toots is very articulate and precise in her language: I figured out that the man was an old tiny Chinese who owns a Laundromat, leg bowed, chest curved inside…I even pissed in her asshole”
“You cannot take a walk with Arthur without incredible events happening. Arthur usually tones down his stories to sound credible but the realities are far more hallucinating. I am trolling with Arthur and he picks up a woman wallet off the street. It contains no money but a picture of a beautiful blonde lady called Charlotte. We decided to knock at her door nearby: we needed a free drink and whatever other sexual freebies that might come along. A kid’s voice answered. We are facing a midget woman. She works in circus and is taking a well deserved rest. Charlotte brings us whiskey and we serve from the bottle as we need. Charlotte is beautiful; her thighs are pawable; her behind and bosoms are normal with respect to her stature; I look at Arthur and I realize that he is having the same thoughts… One day Charlotte visited Arthur; he was not home and she left him a note. Arthur joined me very agitated. He is curious how midget woman are but he is apprehensive of going solo. We visited Charlotte; a monster German shepherd, big as a house attacked them; Charlotte attached the molosse in another room. Arthur wants to know all the particularities of midgets and how different they are from normal people. It turned out that they are as different among themselves as normal people are among normal people; the hardest problem is finding tiny shoes. The tails of the giant men were as big as the baseball bat that Charlotte uses. They had sex with Charlotte with exaggerated fever; Alf kept apprehensive that his tail might do serious damages but Charlotte was pretty flexible and accommodating. The monster dog got too excited and released from his prison and chains; he raped Charlotte as a piston sliding at 100 miles an hour. The two men watched for a couple of minutes and then they figured out that the dog will be very famished after the exercise and they left in a hurry”.
One night, I got up at 1 a.m. and could not go back to sleep because of a bout of sneezing. I read “opus pistorum” for three hours. I did not finish the book that morning but for 24 hours I lived with a hard on and could not sleep though I felt weak and needed to get some sleep. Miller would have described my walk a limping gait throughout the day.
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