Expelled from West Point, Mini finishes a fine novel that remains unpublished when he moves to Big Sur, CA. Henry Miller feels that he has the makings of a great writer. Miller first meets Mini in San Francisco and sees him as the victim of deep humiliations and a failed military strategist battling through life. Miller can listen to him indefinitely. Mini lives with his wife and child in poverty, while maintaining a fine wine cellar, in lonely Lucia, determined to finish a nightmarish novel, which might have been entitled The Unspeakable Horror of this Man-made Universe. Mini regularly seeks Miller's moral injunctions without letting him read the text or even providing a clear outline. He seeks insights into the writing process, which Miller says he approaches too laboriously. Mini doubts himself. Miller tells him to write, write, and write. Unable to find a publisher, Mini leaves to become a night janitor at the University of California at Berkeley, writes by day, and audits classes that he could teach. He makes an art of everything he does.
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