Anais Nin

[fnord_too]

Secondary to a crossword puzzle I was doing, I read some of her quotes and a little about her writing. Looks like interesting stuff, anyone read any of her diaries or other work? Is it worth picking up?

[bisonbison]

She wrote bad porn. Have fun.

[jakethebake]

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She wrote bad porn. Have fun.

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Her work is available HERE. (http://www.asstr.org/main.html)

[theredpill5]

Rape the hell out of her.

[fnord_too]

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She wrote bad porn. Have fun.

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Oh. The quotes I read were not suggestive of porn. I probably should have hit Amazon and looked at some of the reader reviews. Once again your breadth of knowledge amazes me.

[fnord_too]

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Rape the hell out of her.

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necropheliac.

[asofel]

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Secondary to a crossword puzzle I was doing, I read some of her quotes and a little about her writing. Looks like interesting stuff, anyone read any of her diaries or other work? Is it worth picking up?

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I prefer Michael Ninn.

[jakethebake]

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I prefer Michael Ninn.

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This guy? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

http://www.profiboksz.hu/news/parts/Nunn1.jpg

[istewart]

Jake, you are making my day /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[asofel]

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I prefer Michael Ninn.

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This guy? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

http://www.profiboksz.hu/news/parts/Nunn1.jpg

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hehehe, no the guy responsible for this:

http://www.ninnworx.com/mninn_site_4_21_04/mn_site_700/spend_a_evening/anais_tour/splash_page/images/anais_splash_r2_c1.jpg

and other things (nsfw GIS) (http://images.google.com/images?q=michael+ninn&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images)

[gumpzilla]

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer women with noses.

[asofel]

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Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer women with noses.

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nah, just gets in the way...

[Blarg]

Actually, she was a very respected intellectual and writer. She was a trained psychoanalyst and a friend of Henry Miller and other literary figures.

Her goofy porn is what got sensationalized, but her actual fame came from her journals, which, more than diaries, were throwbacks to the old tradition of journal keeping as daily explorations and records of some significance, into which a great deal of time and effort were put. She went even further than that, fleshing out literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic ideas in depth and discussing her life and relations with others with often ruthless candor and a lot of insight. Many volumes have been published, and they are well reviewed as really excellent, remarkable writing.

Henry Miller concurred with others that, as powerful as her journals are, some of the best parts had to do with her relationship with someone she didn't want others to partake of, and so these parts remained off limits to all but her closest friends, and still do to this day. I've read a couple of volumes, and what did come through was a woman with a ferocious, multifaceted intelligence and enormous honesty. She poured an incredible amount of effort into those journals, which stand as a remarkable testament to the examined life.

[Yads]

I tried reading her and it was just a huge brain dump. Every single thought running through her brain recorded on paper. Oh and she also had sex with her dad.

[Blarg]

Her journals were a lot more refined than that. She developed ideas and described things with a lot of care. She wasn't a person with only a single interest, though, and the journal form isn't one that provides a single throughline uniting every theme or tieing every piece together into a thesis, unless the throughline is the person herself.

[Thythe]

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

[DiamondDave]

Read "Delta of Venus". Very loosely related short stories, pretty good IMO.

[fnord_too]

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That, in fact, was the quote the puzzle had. I'm guessing your paper subscribes to the same puzzle?

When I googled her quotes, she had a few cool ones in there.

[Rushmore]

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a very respected intellectual

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Please refrain from using this phrase, as I have my computer set up to automatically shut down whenever it is detected.

On a less annoying, less sarcastic note, I always thought her stuff was dreck, in spite of what Miller always said.

She certainly didn't break any sort of artistic ground, unless you consider being provocative to be artistic.