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Comment on Alan Swallow: Anais Nin’s publisher by Sky Blue Press Editor

Sky Blue Press Editor — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:30:50 +0000

Refer to the following link, which suggests that Anais Nin is not the author of “Risk.” http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2013/03/who-wrote-risk-is-the-mystery-solved/

Comment on Alan Swallow: Anais Nin’s publisher by OR Melling

OR Melling — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:33:27 +0000

A chara, hello from Ireland. I am trying to find out from whom I might get permission to quote Anais Nin’s exquisite gem of a poem “Risk.” Can you help? Thank you. Is mise le meas, OR Melling

Comment on Who wrote “Risk”? Is the mystery solved? by A quote… and a mystery solved. | happyandsimple

A quote… and a mystery solved. | happyandsimple — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:17:53 +0000

[...] to that, but might there be another written source for the quote? Enter Detective Google. This link explains (and verifies) that the quote was written by someone else, and somewhere along the way, it [...]

Comment on Did Gore Vidal lie about his relationship with Anaïs Nin? by Kim

Kim — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:17:33 +0000

Also, Hugh Guiler was more than a mere “meal ticket” for Anais Nin. Her raw diaries reveal that her feelings for him were complicated, because while her romantic feelings for him may have died, she continued to love and trust him — and could not bring herself to leave him. Even after she met Rupert Pole, for whom she did have strong romantic feelings, she could not “abandon” Hugo.

Comment on Did Gore Vidal lie about his relationship with Anaïs Nin? by Sky Blue Press Editor

Sky Blue Press Editor — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:33:19 +0000

Gore Vidal could have supported Anais–he was the son of a very wealthy man (founder of Eastern Airlines), and his novels were selling well. The reason Anais chose not to follow through with this was twofold: First, she couldn’t envision a marriage without sex. Second, she eventually met Rupert Pole and all bets were off when that happened.

Comment on Gunther Stuhlmann: the man behind Anaïs Nin’s success by Sky Blue Press Editor

Sky Blue Press Editor — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:30:03 +0000

Marla, there is no evidence anywhere that Anais slept with Gunther Stuhlmann. Personally, I highly doubt it–Anais never slept with anyone to “get ahead”–it was usually a matter of finding passion in a passionless world, but Rupert Pole had solved that problem long before Gunther appeared. You are right, though, about the assumption that she slept with just about anyone, and her reputation preceded her. When Gunther mentioned to a woman that Anais had attended his wedding, she asked: “Was she naked?” Gunther told me years later, “You know, that really pissed me off!”

Comment on Did Gore Vidal lie about his relationship with Anaïs Nin? by Marla

Marla — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:02:43 +0000

It’s very possible that they may have fantasized about marriage, although I very much doubt that Anais would have seriously divorced Hugh, her meal ticket, unless Vidal was in the position to support her to the life she had become accustomed to. Gore Vidal was friends in the 40s with the Bowles, the literary couple who were very much in vogue at the time. Both were homosexuals who had married to maintain a facade of heterosexuality as they were very ambitious within the NY art scene of the 40s. Eventually, tired of the charade they both relocated to Tangier, Morrocco and became sex tourists where they could pay for same sex relations. Lesbian Jane Bowles was worshipped by many gay male writers, Paul Bowles, her husband; Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, William Burroughs, Alfred Chester who may have wished that they had a similar arrangement with a woman.

Comment on Gunther Stuhlmann: the man behind Anaïs Nin’s success by Marla

Marla — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:34:25 +0000

Did she have an sexual relations with Gunther Stuhlmann? I think it would be really useful if when writing about the men that Anais knew, you could add a footnote or maybe mark them (F) to symbolise the nature of the relationship. That was one of the failings of the 1966 published diaries. Too many people now assume that Anais just slept with everyone.

Comment on Who wrote “Risk”? Is the mystery solved? by Wayne McEvilly

Wayne McEvilly — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:08:36 +0000

Anais created so many myths that have become the reality – when I first visited her in her NYC residence the concierge of the building did not “register” the name Anais Nin and told me no one by that name lived there – and then…..”Ah! You mean Mrs. Guiler!”
“Lassie’s” tale (no pun) rings true.
Things and words had a way of “belonging to” Anais.
I was recording one her University talks after having had dinner with her.
She began:
“We are here to celebrate the REFUSAL TO DESPAIR.”
Although she had written to me saying “I am taking your phrase ‘refusal to despair’ with me on my tour, I was startled to hear it so beautifully, powerfully, and softly uttered.
I never told her it was not “mine” but “belonged to” the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. No doubt it is now hers.
Please excuse any typos – thumbnailed on my blackberry
Thanks4 keeping Anais’s memory green
Wayne

Comment on Anais Nin’s Under a Glass Bell, Manga Style by Sky Blue Press Editor

Sky Blue Press Editor — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:27:06 +0000

Thanks for you comment, Joanne. I find this particular medium for this particular story almost perfect–it is certainly beautiful in the hands of Fawn Meng. I’m trying to imagine House of Incest….hmm.