![]() Germaine was imported to Tropic of Cancer from a generic "tourist" piece, "Mademoiselle Claude," one of several sketches of stereotypical Parisian figures Miller penned during his first year as an expatriate. ![]() The cliched nature of this tale is borne out by its textual history. The narrator's encounter with her is equally predictable, cut from the same misogynous cloth: he falls in love, safely, for of course no man can truly love a whore. Germaine is a stock figure, the familiar "whore with the heart of gold" who knows her business and sticks to it. Apart from the manner of its inclusion within Tropic of Cancer, this story is unremarkable. Miller's use of anecdote to construct and defend a twentieth-century reality reduced to "spots of time" is followed easiest through one of the fragments cannibalized from his earlier work and "sandwiched" into the third, untitled "chapter" (pages 34 to 43) of Tropic of Cancer: the story of Germaine. ![]() Image Crazy Cock, Germaine, Mademoiselle Claude ![]()
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