I ended up buying Delta of Venus by Anais Nin because, well, why not? It looked like it might be fun, so I’m giving it a shot. So far, some good, some bad. I must say that I’m not a fan of the pedophilial encounters. Sure, I’ve read Nabokov’s Lolita but that’s a different matter altogether. Lolita is a disturbing read but beautiful all the same. It never seems to aim too explicitly at arousing a reader with sexual descriptions of pedophilia, but a couple of the stories in Delta of Venus do. Some trysts are too forced for my tastes as well. Granted, this is just erotica and not the actual acts, so I won’t yet throw Nin to the bottom of my mind. After all, there are a number of better parts. Plus, I haven’t even finished reading the collection yet. Perhaps I will elaborate more at a later date.
Anais Nin
December 26, 2007 at 12:17 am (Regarding literature)
Tags: anais nin, Delta of Venus, erotica, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Senior Quote
December 23, 2007 at 9:40 pm (Regarding literature)
Tags: anais nin, senior quote
SO. Last year I was looking for my senior quote to put in the yearbook and all and I came across and decided upon something to the effect of “The risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” by Anais Nin. It was no big deal for me – just had to pick something. Hah…I never bothered to look up what Anais Nin is known for…just the other day I found out by chance as I was perusing random books in the regular ol’ fiction section of Borders. I happened upon Anais Nin’s books while sitting on the floor in the middle of an aisle next to my friend, who was laying on my coat talking to another friend on the phone and having a planning dilemma with him. Lo and behold, Nin’s books’re basically books of erotic literature! It isn’t the sort that one would find among porno mags/websites/etcetera, but it was definitely erotica. As it turns out, I used something from an erotica author for my senior quote. Great, huh? I love it. I have to wonder if anyone picked up on that on their own, just flipping through the yearbook. (Hey, at least I didn’t quote Jenna Jameson! Yes, someone at my high school did do that once upon a time.)
