Artists and Models by Anais Nin, author of La Cloche de Verre – my note of this is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/la-cloche-de-verre-by-anais-nin-in.html together with more reviews - 8 out of 10

 

Artists and Models by Anais Nin, author of La Cloche de Verre – my note of this is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/la-cloche-de-verre-by-anais-nin-in.html together with more reviews

 

8 out of 10

 

The stories from The Delta of Venus are incredible, and the novel aka collection of short stories is included on the list of 1,000 novels Everyone Must Read, in some ways, I wish I could read this when I was an adolescent, trying to figure out what sex is, what women want, how to get close to them, and the like

 

Some decades back we were immersed in The Tales of Boccaccio, The Decameron https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/los-mejores-cuentos-eroticos-aka-best.html although we had no idea that they are among The 100 Greatest Books of All Time, we were just thrilled by the sexuality within

Artists and Models has this model coming into the sculptor’s atelier and then Millar tells her about Montparnasse, and the sensual happenings from over there – there was this wife of an artist, who was a nymphomaniac – I have met about a couple, maybe a few more, one was a princess, really, even if a diminished one

 

Calimachi was one of the ruler princes, and there were scores, maybe hundreds of them, paying the sultans to get the top spot in one of the Romanian provinces, where they would extract taxes, get rich, Insha’Allah, and then they could recoup their initial investment, the backsheesh used to get to a commanding role

And this Alexandra Calimachi is the one descending from one of those fortunate and tragic figures, many would be killed, some have lost their savings, in this particular case, I wonder if she claimed some chateau, properties, and in the meantime, she is somewhere near here, in a lavish palazzo, and I should stop this and give her a call

 

The Model from The Delta of Venus hears this saga of the nymphomaniac and it is suitable for the purpose, in the introduction, we read how one collector had ordered erotica, then they were written at order, and he censored, asking for no frills, he just wanted the sex, forget the sea and the rest, in the tale Mallorca for instance

I would say that these lines are both intriguing, arousing, pleasurable, but they present a challenge, they have to be taken in installments, at least this is what I do, tomorrow is the day for paid sex (there is no other way for yours truly, alas) ergo this evening, some reading from the Anais Nin opus is recommended

Otherwise, without intercourse in the next day’s menu, this could be a version of BDSM, the Marquis de Sade https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-model-and-other-stories-aka-by.html I mean you somehow repeat the experience of the nymphomaniac wife in the book, who has this hunger for sex, in the extreme

 

Her husband has this constant fear of Cubans and Negroes (this is the word from the work) and he resorts to asking his friends to have his spouse, to prevent her from meeting strangers, losing her, or having her come to harm, I am not clear as to which, nevertheless, she does encounter this Cuban, Antonio, handsome

He has long hair, and a habit of taking women for three days of sexual feast – I cannot help but stop and think that this sounds artificial, which it is, as mentioned, the writer produced these lines for this fellow who had a lust for the words, however limited to the vulgar and sexual ones – and the women would be so satisfied

 

Only with the particular woman, it is a different development, she wears a chastity belt, to suggest she is the slave of her sexual hunger and we have inserted here the plight of the crusader, who went to fight for the cross (what else, he was a knight of the cause) and left spouse with chastity belt and key in the care of his best friend

Unfortunately, he rides only a few miles towards Jerusalem and he is stopped by the agitated, furious friend, who says ‘you gave me the wrong key’ – now the nymphomaniac is taken to a room by Antonio, who is a painter of frescoes, no less, and he plays with her, as if he is out of the Marquis de Sade somehow

 

There is another book of games, Games People Play https://realini.blogspot.com/2013/09/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html by Eric Berne, this one is a classic of psychology, and what happens within is on another, psychological level, the blame game, the If It Weren’t For You are also teasing, but the satisfactions are different

The Cuban is playing with the helpless woman, tears the dress around the chastity belt, which he keeps on for so damn long, he bites every morsel, the ass, which he kisses, there are no limits in these stories, they may beat Sandra Brown, they definitely would have been a gold mine in the days of Ceausescu, when we had so little

 

Indeed, we were reduced to avidly read a page from Ion aka John https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/10/ion-by-liviu-rebreanu-another-note-on.html compulsory reading if you can believe it, and you should, because there is no hot scene there, except suggestions, nudity, which were the climax

For such poor, ignorant teenagers, when there is a rape scene, in another acclaimed local oeuvre, Rascoala aka The Uprising, that was seen as pornography, yes, it was so damn wrong, even if the man is a peasant and he takes revenge on a rich woman, the commies had a sick sense of morality, what am I saying, they had no such thing https://realini.blogspot.com/2016/11/note-on-rascoala-aka-uprising-by-liviu.html

 

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

 

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”