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anais nin's diary volume 2

When the movie Henry and June came out in 1990 I had already read couple of books from Henry Miller and didn’t like them. So, I went to see the movie reluctantly – and the movie turned out to fall somewhat short of my expectations. What the movie did was to cause me to pick – up the diaries—and never put them down. Today Anais Nin's diaries seem more relevant the ever before – as you will see they have a disassociated bloggish quality about them.I have made a couple of posts on Mark America, Grammatron, and Becoming Research on my hamid & company blog before – check them out for Mark is doing truly wonderful work to develop the web as an artistic medium. Here is Mark's descriptionof the diaries: "True blog is not true at all. It is pseudo.For example, the novels of Henry Miller could be considered bloggish, but then again so would the so-called "diaries" of Anais Nin, not because they are diaries per se, but because they subvert the diary form into what reads like an associative, pseudo-autobiographical novel. It's her socio-linguistic poetics coupled with an energetic linking process that makes it feel so bloggered. Her enigmatic jazz momentum totally eroticized by a very stylized use of language as aphrodiasical elixir. This, I believe, is the key to blogging less it become nothing but narcissistic foreplay, and mediocre narcissistic foreplay at that. " I have started A blog of the second volume--here Nin is more measured compared to the sexual overtonesw of the first volume.

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