tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post6100224920437239585..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Henry and June and AnaisAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-91368270464133021692013-11-12T14:09:59.610-05:002013-11-12T14:09:59.610-05:00Consider yourself lucky to be busy. I'm a grea...Consider yourself lucky to be busy. I'm a great believer in inertia. As I suggested, try her at bedtime. Perhaps just a page or two to slip you into slumberland.Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-9069610712672198142013-11-08T18:14:56.071-05:002013-11-08T18:14:56.071-05:00Thanks to you, Daddy X, I finally got around to ge...Thanks to you, Daddy X, I finally got around to getting Little Birds and The Diary from my local library, but I also brought home a stack of books about the Mongol invasion as research for a story, so there' no guarantee that I'll get to Anais Nin this time around. Maybe just a little... Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-49525452846362362652013-11-07T10:00:08.822-05:002013-11-07T10:00:08.822-05:00Hey Garce-
I don't mind longer works that take...Hey Garce-<br />I don't mind longer works that take me places I haven't been before. I often feel sad when a great read is finished. After reading the whole of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet", I started right back on Justine and read the four volumes straight through again. Did the same thing with 'Geek Love', by Katherine Dunne, which is admittedly shorter. <br /><br />No, I haven't gotten to that point. There's been plenty of references to her prose poem "House of Incest", but not he actual act. Right now she's playing intermediary between her father and his wife Maruca after she finally threw him out for his philandering. She depicts a weak, though talented jerk, always seeking affirmation by sexual conquest. Although she has no problem with infidelity, she decries his selfish motives. Thanx for commenting on that aspect; it does haunt the work.Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-82983156626146778492013-11-06T21:40:07.892-05:002013-11-06T21:40:07.892-05:00Oh - I have "Little Birds" too, sometime...Oh - I have "Little Birds" too, sometimes I forget.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-4969125354758184242013-11-06T21:39:34.165-05:002013-11-06T21:39:34.165-05:00Hi Daddy X!
I have two of Nin's books "T...Hi Daddy X!<br /><br />I have two of Nin's books "The Portable Anais Nin" and "Delta of Venus", both of which I love reading. Nin's erotica is especially powerful and evocative, I'm surprised she expressed such a poor opinion of it, even saying that writing it drained her of desire.<br /><br />I've snacked on her diaries from time to time but anyone attempting to read them all would need a serious investment of time. She committed incest with her father, and wrote in frank detail about it. Have you gotten to that part yet?<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-24966365089634391072013-11-06T11:03:22.087-05:002013-11-06T11:03:22.087-05:00I've not seen the movie 'Henry and June...I've not seen the movie 'Henry and June', Amanda, but would certainly like to. Maybe it'll come on 'On Demand'. We don't do Netflix. Speaking of readings, if anyone out there is in the SF bay area, Rachel Kramer Bussell and various authors from Big Book of Orgasms have a reading tonight at Good Vibrations, Polk ST. location, in SF. I'll be there along with a couple of others from ERWA. And- I do remember that quote re: the surrealists. There are so many quotable passages in these, you'd think you were reading Sade. I do like your take on framing everyday terms in lies and exaggerations to cover large swaths of inclusion.<br /><br />And, Lisabet- Yes, that bit was overblown, but it speaks to the raw spontaneity the editor has preserved with such veracity.<br />Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-78695199411493353392013-11-06T08:40:28.154-05:002013-11-06T08:40:28.154-05:00part of the beauty of Nin is her sensuous language...part of the beauty of Nin is her sensuous language. yes, overdone. exactly...because life needs to be over done, not under done..."There are times when the day itself demands a climax." i love this....& compared to some of her erotic fiction, which can be so minimal, she's much more effusive here. last night at a poetry reading, the poet, Jerome Rothenberg said that writers have the right to lie...yes, i agree. we have to be able to frame the small everyday in terms of universal truth, which sometimes needs lies. a paradox, but it makes sense to me. <br />my fav quote from the Diary is "'Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension.''<br />The Diary of Anais Nin: 1931-1934Amanda Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09059621442042833693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-26715260548690454582013-11-06T07:40:18.627-05:002013-11-06T07:40:18.627-05:00The diaries of authors (and would be authors) are ...The diaries of authors (and would be authors) are always a bit suspect. Do we ever write only for ourselves? Or do we imagine our lovers reading as well? Certainly, re-reading some of my own diaries (which I kept, sporadically, for about fifteen years), I can feel the self-consciousness, the deliberate selection of words, events, impressions. <br /><br />The one volume of Nin's diaries that I've sampled struck me the same way - as much a writer's notebook as an outpouring of self. Not that this is bad, of course. It makes for great reading. (Personally, though, I find that passage about orgasm above a bit overdone.)Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-35172907250570228182013-11-06T06:49:48.467-05:002013-11-06T06:49:48.467-05:00i've had Nin's diaries on my list for year...i've had Nin's diaries on my list for years. time i got to readin' em. ;) did you see the film Henry & June?Amanda Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09059621442042833693noreply@blogger.com