Day 199

This is the latest donation from Brooklyn-based T-shirt retailer Out Of Print, featuring a full-canvas print of the cover art from novel Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller.
Unfortunately, due to limited Internet connectivity, I don't currently have the ability to research details about the novel's plot, and as I've not read the book, I also can't offer you the bleary misremembered version either. So going on nothing more than the front cover artwork, I can quite confidently speculate that Tropic Of Cancer is all about a giant crab that terrorises a city and snatches up people!

It's now later in the day and with a fully functioning Internet service in front of me, I see that my earlier assumptions about this book's story were slightly off the mark.
There doesn't appear to be any mention of a thirty foot tall crustacean bringing harm to mankind at all, though I have discovered that the book was not altogether without its share of plight and controversy. It was banned from entering a number of countries during the early thirties (it even carries warning label on the cover artwork expressing the outlaw), owing to its obscene candid sexuality that did not conform to various laws on pornography. Naturally, the book was no stranger to the courthouse, especially within the American justice system, as several attempts to smuggle it over the borders were heavily publicised spanning the next three decades before the ban was finally lifted.
It seems then that Tropic Of Cancer was a heavily sort after book back in its day and Out Of Print's T-shirt rendition holds equal appeal now. As with all the donations I've received from Out Of Print Clothing, this is a sturdy light weight garment bearing an excellent high quality print.

Final thought - I find it ironic that a book now hailed as literary genius was slammed for its sexual content, when today, 50 Shades Of Grey got hailed for its sexual content and slammed for its literary effort. How times have changed. Everything was much simpler when the world was ruled by sexy crab monsters.

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