Tropic of Cancer Time Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. (2.13)

Henry thinks that most men are basically sissies. No one has the courage to call things what they are. Well, except him, of course.

Quote #5

How the hell can a man write when he doesn't even know where he's going to sit the next half hour? (2.29)

Henry definitely lives moment to moment. His life is spontaneous and unpredictable, so all that matters is having the time and space to write. But wait? Does he have the time and space to write? How come we never see it happening?

Quote #6

How long this lasts I have no idea; I have lost all sense of time and place. And what seems like an eternity there follows an interval of semiconsciousness. (6.16)

Henry pretty much functions in a daze, and it makes us seriously question his reliability as a narrator. It also makes it hard for us, as readers, not to feel a little dazed ourselves.