Bosch Basics
75 words idly contemplating Henry Miller’s Big Sur
Jheronimus van Aken was Jerome from Aachen aka Hieronymus Bosch.
What kind of person was Hieronymus Bosch and why did his oranges end up in Big Sur where Henry Miller had a French house guest who was impossible to please but he wouldn’t leave?
Bosch was born in the Netherlands a year before Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa. 1450 and 1451, van Aken was a Dutchman and Columbus would learn a dialect of Ligurian.