Who wrote 'Sexus', 'Nexus'and 'Plexus' that collectively make up 'The Rosy Crucifixion'?
"strings. Henry Miller made reference to this symphony in ""Nexus"", the third volume of ""The Rosy Crucifixion"": That ""Poème de l'extase""? Put it on loud. His music sounds like I think - sometimes. Has that far-off cosmic itch. Divinely fouled up. All fire and air. The first time I heard it I played it over and over. (...) It was like a bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows. For weeks I went about in a trance. Something had happened to me. (...) Every time a thought seized me a little door would open inside my chest, and there, in this"
"up fighting the image. In 1942, shortly before moving to California, Miller began writing ""Sexus"", the first novel in ""The Rosy Crucifixion"" trilogy, a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of his life in Brooklyn falling in love with June and struggling to become a writer. Like several of his other works, the trilogy, completed in 1959, was initially banned in the United States, published only in France and Japan. In other works written during his time in California, Miller was widely critical of consumerism in America, as reflected in ""Sunday After The War"" (1944) and ""The Air-Conditioned Nightmare"" (1945)."
"significant changes."" She is one who has changed many details of her life: ""her name, her birthplace, her mother, her upbringing, her friends, her tastes, even her desires."" The ""New York Times"" stated, ""Miller uses licentious sex scenes to set the stage for his philosophical discussions of self, love, marriage and happiness."" Miller said that, in a burst of inspiration one night in 1927, he stayed up all night plotting out ""Tropic of Capricorn"" (1939) and ""The Rosy Crucifixion"" in forty or fifty typewritten pages. He began writing ""Sexus"" in New York in 1942, then set it aside until picking"
"possible that his ex-wife Beatrice, the model for Maude, would bring a lawsuit for her portrayal in the novel. Despite Miller's reservations, all three volumes of ""The Rosy Crucifixion"" were published by Grove Press in the US in the summer of 1965. They soon were holding the top spots on the ""Publishers Weekly"" best-seller list along with two more of Miller's books, the recently unbanned ""The World of Sex"" and ""Quiet Days in Clichy"". Miller’s close friend, author Lawrence Durrell, was severely disappointed in ""Sexus"". In a letter dated September 5, 1949, he wrote that Miller was lost ""in this"
"Henry Miller Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are ""Tropic of Cancer"", ""Black Spring"", ""Tropic of Capricorn"" and ""The Rosy Crucifixion"" trilogy, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs"
"Artist"" awards including the Kirby Award in 1986, the Eisner Award in 1988, and the Harvey Award in 1991. He received an Inkpot Award in 1988. Steve Rude Steve Rude (born December 31, 1956) is an American comics artist. He is best known as the co-creator of ""Nexus"". Steve Rude was born on December 31, 1956 in Madison, Wisconsin. He attended the Milwaukee School of Art and Design, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Madison Area Technical College. In 1981, Rude and writer Mike Baron created ""Nexus"", an independent science fiction comic book with a large supporting cast. For the"
"his ex-wife and main subject of ""The Rosy Crucifixion"" trilogy, June. They hadn't seen each other in nearly three decades. In a letter to Eve, he described his shock at June's ""terrible"" appearance, as she had by then degenerated both physically and mentally. In 1959, Miller wrote a short story which he called his ""most singular story."" It is truly a work of fiction entitled ""The Smile At the Foot of the Ladder"". In February 1963, Miller moved to 444 Ocampo Drive, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, where he would spend the last 17 years of his life. In 1967,"
"Harvey Spencer Lewis Harvey Spencer Lewis F.R.C., S:::I:::I:::, 33° 66° 95°, PhD (November 25, 1883 – August 2, 1939), a noted Rosicrucian author, occultist, and mystic, was the founder in the USA and the first Imperator of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), from 1915 until 1939. Lewis was born in Frenchtown, New Jersey, to Aaron Rittenhouse Lewis and a German-born teacher, Catherine Hoffman. He worked in advertising as an illustrator (the modern term commercial artist best describes his line of work), and he used this experience to promote AMORC, through print ads, booklets and magazine illustrations. Lewis"
"Hexameron (musical composition) Hexaméron, Morceau de concert S.392 is a collaborative composition for solo piano. It consists of six variations on a theme, along with an introduction, connecting interludes and a finale. The theme is the ""March of the Puritans"" from Vincenzo Bellini's opera ""I puritani"". Princess Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso conceived the piece in 1837 and persuaded Franz Liszt to assemble a set of variations of the march along with five of his pianist-friends. Liszt composed the introduction, second variation, connecting sections and finale, and integrated the piece into an artistic unity. Five well-known composer-performers each contributed one variation: Frédéric"
"horror, of murder, and of deeds done in darkness."" Printed for Thomas Redriffe, Piccadilly. The price was ""Two-Pence"". St. Irvyne St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance is a Gothic horror novel written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1810 and published by John Joseph Stockdale in December of that year, dated 1811, in London anonymously as ""by a Gentleman of the University of Oxford"" while the author was an undergraduate. The main character is Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer, who encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality. The book"
"the four gospels, have inspired many musical compositions, from Heinrich Schütz in 1645 to Ruth Zechlin in 1996, with the best known being Joseph Haydn's ""The Seven Last Words of Christ"", composed in 1787. Depictions of crucifixion outside the Christian context are rare. One of the few examples is in Ernest Reyer's opera ""Salammbô"" (1890). The 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber ends with Jesus' crucifixion. The cover art of Tupac Shakur's album features an image of Tupac being crucified on a cross. He stated that the image was not a mockery of"
"founded on the childhood of Romulus and Remus (""Lupus"" or ""Alimonium Romuli et Remi""), the other called ""Clastidium"", which celebrated the victory of Marcus Claudius Marcellus over the Celts (222 BC). But it was as a writer of comedy that he was most famous, most productive and most original. While he is never ranked as a writer of tragedy with Ennius, Pacuvius, or Accius, he is placed in the canon of the grammarian Volcatius Sedigitus third (immediately after Caecilius and Plautus) in the rank of Roman comic authors. He is there characterized as ardent and impetuous in character and style."
"is between 1175 and the 1180s. Recordings Columba Aspexit Columba Aspexit is a sequence written by Hildegard of Bingen in the late 12th century. It is one of seven sequences from her collection of lyrical poetry entitled ""Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum."" This piece is found in only one manuscript: HS 2; Hessische Landesbibliotek, Wiesbaden, “Riesenkodex” (1175). A Sequence is a dramatic poem that is sung between the Alleluia and the Gospel in the Mass. While most sequences have rhymed pairs of lines, Hildegard's are more through-composed. Columba Aspexit was written about St. Maximinus, whose feast is celebrated on the 29th"
"1924 Miller quit Western Union in order to dedicate himself completely to writing. Miller later describes this time – his struggles to become a writer, his sexual escapades, failures, friends, and philosophy – in his autobiographical trilogy ""The Rosy Crucifixion"". Miller's second novel, """", was written in 1927–28, initially under the guise of a novel written by June. A rich older admirer of June, Roland Freedman, paid her to write the novel; she would show him pages of Miller's work each week, pretending it was hers. The book went unpublished until 1992, 65 years after it was written and 12"
"Cemetery, Oxford beside her husband. Stainer's output of sacred music was extensive, including the Passion cantata or oratorio ""The Crucifixion"" (1887), the ""Sevenfold Amen"" (this latter piece was especially admired by the lexicographer Sir George Grove), and numerous hymn tunes, including ""Cross of Jesus"", ""All for Jesus"" (both from ""The Crucifixion""), and ""Love Divine"". His settings for the ""Gloria"" and ""Sanctus"" were sung at the coronation of Edward VII in 1902. His work as a composer was much esteemed during his lifetime but is not well known today. ""The Crucifixion"" is one of the few major works of his that"
"Nexus (comics) Nexus is an American comic book series created by writer Mike Baron and penciler Steve Rude in 1981. The series is a combination of the superhero and science fiction genres, set 500 years in the future. The series debuted as a three-issue black-and-white limited series (the third of which featured a 33 RPM flexi disc with music and dialogue from the issue), followed by an ongoing full-color series which lasted 80 issues. The black-and-white issues and the first six color issues were published by Capital Comics; after Capital's demise, First Comics took over publication. On the creation of"
"composer. Jules Dassin's film ""He Who Must Die"" (""Celui qui doit mourir"", 1957) is based on the novel. Derek Carver based his stage and BBC radio play ""Not to Send Peace"" on the novel. Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation produced a 50-episode TV series adaptation of the novel that was directed by Vasilis Georgiadis and aired from 1975 to 1976. Christ Recrucified Christ Recrucified (Ο Χριστός Ξανασταυρώνεται, 'Christ is Recrucified') is a 1954 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. The story concerns the attempts of a Greek village community to stage a Passion Play - which, as the title suggests, ends up with their"
"to exist to this day all over the world. Rijckenborgh's books include ""Dei Gloria Intacta"", ""The Coming New Man"" and ""The Egyptian Gnosis"". Jan van Rijckenborgh Jan van Rijckenborgh (October 16, 1896 – July 17, 1968) was a Dutch-born mystic and founder of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, a worldwide esoteric Rosicrucian movement. Jan van Rijckenborgh was born in Haarlem, Holland, under the name Jan Leene, adopting the name van Rijckenborgh later. With his brother, Zwier Willem Leene, he rejected the teachings of the orthodox Christianity and grew up with in favour of a more mystical approach. Under the influence of Dr."
"Unix operating system. The Nexus Trilogy The Nexus Trilogy is a postcyberpunk thriller novel trilogy written by American author Ramez Naam and published between 2012-2015. The novel series follows the protagonist Kaden Lane, a scientist who works on an experimental nano-drug, Nexus, which allows the brain to be programmed and networked, connecting human minds together. As he pursues his work, he becomes entangled in government and corporate intrigue. The story takes place in the year 2040. ""Nexus"" tied for Best Novel in the 2014 Prometheus Awards given out by the Libertarian Futurist Society. It was also shortlisted for the 2014"
"with the execution of Christians by damnatio ad bestias. Julius Caesar (play) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar) is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on true events from Roman history, which also include ""Coriolanus"" and ""Antony and Cleopatra"". Although the play is named ""Julius Caesar"", Brutus speaks more than four times as many lines as the title character; and the central psychological drama of the play focuses on Brutus' struggle between the conflicting"
"Shakespeare published two narrative poems on sexual themes, ""Venus and Adonis"" and ""The Rape of Lucrece"". He dedicated them to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. In ""Venus and Adonis"", an innocent Adonis rejects the sexual advances of Venus; while in ""The Rape of Lucrece"", the virtuous wife Lucrece is raped by the lustful Tarquin. Influenced by Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", the poems show the guilt and moral confusion that result from uncontrolled lust. Both proved popular and were often reprinted during Shakespeare's lifetime. A third narrative poem, ""A Lover's Complaint"", in which a young woman laments her seduction by a persuasive suitor,"
"""Silentium."" Tabula Rasa (Pärt) Tabula Rasa is a musical composition written in 1977 by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The piece contains two movements, ""Ludus"" and ""Silentium,"" and is a double concerto for two solo violins, prepared piano, and chamber orchestra. In 1968, Arvo Pärt fell publicly silent and entered a period of “artistic reorientation.” During this period, he developed his tintinnabuli style of composition, which pairs two voices, one playing the notes of a scale (Melodic Voice), and the other playing notes of a triad (Tintinnabuli Voice). Pärt emerged from this period of innovation in 1976, and composed many"
"Permanent Press, was published. Marco Vassi Marco Ferdinand William Vasquez-d'Acugno Vassi (November 6, 1937 in New York City – January 14, 1989 in New York City) was an American experimental thinker and author, most noted for his erotica. He wrote fiction and nonfiction, publishing hundreds of short stories, articles, more than a dozen novels, and at least one play, ""The Re-Enactment,"" (under the name of Fred Vassi) at the Caffe Cino in January 1966. Many of his works appeared as ""Anonymous"" in their first printings. He is most often compared to Henry Miller, has been called the greatest erotic writer"
"Fix"" (2006). She also wrote the erotic novel, ""Lying in Bed"" (2006). She followed with a series focusing on reincarnation and other supernatural phenomena, starting with ""The Reincarnationist"" (2007), and continuing with ""The Memorist"" (2008) and ""The Hypnotist"" (2010). A fourth book in the series, ""The Book of Lost Fragrances"", was released in March 2012. ""Seduction"" was released in 2013 and ""The Collector of Dying Breaths"" in 2014. ""The Reincarnationist"" was the inspiration for the Fox TV series ""Past Life."" Rose provides book marketing services and consultation to authors through AuthorBuzz.com and runs a blog, Buzz, Balls & Hype. She"
"surrounding the events of the crucifixion, which, taken together, are called the Passion. Its popularity is attested by the number of languages in which it exists, each of these being represented by two or more variant ""editions"": Greek (the original), Coptic, Armenian and Latin versions. The Latin versions were printed several times in the 15th and 16th centuries. One class of the Latin manuscripts contain as an appendix or continuation, the ""Cura Sanitatis Tiberii"", the oldest form of the Veronica legend. The ""Acts of Pilate"" consist of three sections, whose styles reveal three authors, writing at three different times. Eusebius"
"Tabula Rasa (Pärt) Tabula Rasa is a musical composition written in 1977 by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The piece contains two movements, ""Ludus"" and ""Silentium,"" and is a double concerto for two solo violins, prepared piano, and chamber orchestra. In 1968, Arvo Pärt fell publicly silent and entered a period of “artistic reorientation.” During this period, he developed his tintinnabuli style of composition, which pairs two voices, one playing the notes of a scale (Melodic Voice), and the other playing notes of a triad (Tintinnabuli Voice). Pärt emerged from this period of innovation in 1976, and composed many of"
"described as ""responsible for the legend's widespread popularity."" Harvey Spencer Lewis Harvey Spencer Lewis F.R.C., S:::I:::I:::, 33° 66° 95°, PhD (November 25, 1883 – August 2, 1939), a noted Rosicrucian author, occultist, and mystic, was the founder in the USA and the first Imperator of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), from 1915 until 1939. Lewis was born in Frenchtown, New Jersey, to Aaron Rittenhouse Lewis and a German-born teacher, Catherine Hoffman. He worked in advertising as an illustrator (the modern term commercial artist best describes his line of work), and he used this experience to promote AMORC,"
"into hermeticism, alchemy, Freemasonry, the Cathars (thanks in part to his collaboration with neo-Cathar historian Antonin Gadal), Christian Gnosticism and other forms of esoteric study. Taking as his central image of the relationship between the Soul and the Body the Rose Cross he argued for the Transfiguration/Gnostic Rebirth of the Soul in Man, thus achieving a transcendence of the dialectic of ordinary life. The Lectorium was founded to study and proselytize these ideas. Jan van Rijckenborgh died in 1968 and was succeeded by Catharose de Petri as leader of the movement until her death in 1990. The Lectorium Rosicrucianum continues"
"sings of 'The Rape of Lucretia' like a Morrissey who had not stopped at an enthusiasm for Oscar Wilde but mined the whole decadent tradition: Pater, Swinburne, Huysmans."" All songs written by Nicholas Currie (Momus). Circus Maximus (Momus album) Circus Maximus is the debut album by Scottish musician Momus, released on January 15, 1986 on Creation Records. It deals primarily with Biblical and Ancient Roman themes, making reference to figures such as Saul, St. Sebastian, Lucretia, and Solomon. The title, ""Circus Maximus"", refers to the ancient Roman chariot racing and entertainment venue of the same name. ""The Guardian"" has characterized"
"works including ""Leaves of Grass"", ""Melmoth"", ""Stanford White"", ""The Confessions of St. Augustine"", ""Pale Fire"", ""The Three Christs of Ypsilanti"", and ""The Hills of Switzerland""; the last is the title of one of Louis Sacchetti's books in ""Camp Concentration"". Several usages of future slang in early editions of the novel were ""corrected"" to standard spellings in the 1999 Vintage Books edition. Two of these, ""mickeymouse"" and ""sexlife"", were contractions indicating the increasingly casual usage of the phrases; another, ""gorillas"" for members of the Marines, was changed to ""guerrillas"", but may have been an intentional pun due to the black masks"
"and he was 31. Miller left his first wife and child to marry June in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 1, 1924. Their relationship is the main subject of Miller's semi-autobiographical trilogy, ""The Rosy Crucifixion"". June is also featured in his best-known works, ""Tropic of Cancer"" and ""Tropic of Capricorn"". In October 1926, Jean Kronski, an artist and poet, moved in with them at June's urging. June, who was likely bisexual, cultivated a very close relationship with Jean, often preferring Jean's affections to Henry's. This living arrangement soon fell apart and Jean and June left for Paris together in April"
"Brockes Passion (Handel) The Brockes Passion, or """" (title in English: The Story of Jesus, Suffering and Dying for the Sins of the World), is a German oratorio libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, first published in 1712 and going through 30 or so editions in the next 15 years. The most famous musical setting of Brockes' text is that by George Frideric Handel, HWV 48. Other composers who set this text are Reinhard Keiser (1712), Georg Philipp Telemann (1716), Johann Mattheson (1718), Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1725), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1723) and several others. Barthold Heinrich Brockes was an influential German"
"The Sensual World The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It was released in October 1989 and peaked at no. 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It has been certified Platinum by the BPI for sales of 300,000 in the UK, and Gold by the RIAA in the US. Bush drew inspiration for the title track from the novel ""Ulysses"" by James Joyce. Bush realised that Molly Bloom's soliloquy, the closing passage of the novel, fit the music she had created. When the Joyce estate refused to release the text, Bush wrote original"