![]() Exotic Chinese and Africans are used as backdrops. Then I read the book, a strange combination of genuinely sexy and often beautiful writing, affected prose and naive Freudianism. It sounds good, and when I read this in the foreword to Delta of Venus I agreed wholeheartedly. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. ![]() At one point Nin wrote him a letter which said in part:ĭear Collector: We hate you. ![]() Concentrate on sex." The impoverished writers who, along with Nin, wrote for the old man to pay their bills, resented this commandment greatly. The preface of Delta of Venus tells the rueful tale of the cold voice over the telephone with its directive, "Leave out the poetry. The paperback edition has gone through four printings, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, knowing a good thing when they see it, have recently brought out a second volume, beautifully printed as the first and likewise bound in real cloth-quite a tribute these days, especially for stories originally written for an anonymous dirty old man at a dollar a page. ![]() "THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago, Anais Nin created the female language for sexuality." So says the blurb on the back of Delta of Venus, the first posthumous volume of Anais Nin's erotic writing. ![]()
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