“This is my seventieth year of ping-pong playing,” Henry Miller wrote in 1971. “I started at the age of 10 on the dining room table. I take on players from all over the world. I play a steady, defensive Zen-like game. The importance of my recreation lies in preventing intellectual discussions. No matter how important or glamorous an opponent may be, I never let him or her distract me.”

A picture I took at the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California – Summer 2014