A skilled artist working in all media, Jack Morgenrath lives on Livermore Ledge in Big Sur, CA. He can fix anything and owns a car and a truck only in order to hire himself out. Otherwise, he would do without. Born a Jew in the sadistic Polish Corridor and transplanted to the Brooklyn ghetto, Jack frees himself of all ambition but to live the good life, without fuss. He answers Henry Miller's questions about painting slowly and comprehensively. He is a tolerant, flexible, wise, gracious Fundamentalist/Absolutist, living in "a state of eternity" (Part 2, Chapter 4, pg. 98.) He is maddeningly clairvoyant. Every lesson about art floors Miller and makes him contemplate how art permeates Asian life. Creator and all creatures are revered.
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