Erotica – The Delta of Venus and More by Anais Nin, author of Artists and Models – my note on this story is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/artists-and-models-by-anais-nin-author.html along with a few hundred other reviews - 8 out of 10

 

Erotica – The Delta of Venus and More by Anais Nin, author of Artists and Models – my note on this story is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/artists-and-models-by-anais-nin-author.html along with a few hundred other reviews

 

8 out of 10

 

The Delta of Venus by Anais Nin is included on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, and The Veiled Woman is just one of the incredibly sensual, exciting stories that constitute the novel, actually a collection of erotica, apparently requested by a collector, who also wanted them censored, that is shorter

 

This man paid for arousing narratives, but he was focused (exclusively, one could say) on the sex, the penetration and whatever else was lurid enough, but he was not pleased with descriptions, the images of skin like satin, which make the delight of the literati, who would have to think that primitive man nonetheless

The range of sensations, orgasms, positions, perversity (the Hungarian Adventurer has sex with children), places where coitus takes place is incredible, and I think again what would have happened, were we to have access to this treasure for intercourse and more when we were teenagers, and had to do with https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/10/ion-by-liviu-rebreanu-another-note-on.html Rebreanu, Ion and Rascoala

 

Even when finally reaching Bocaccio, whose Decameron is placed higher, if you will, than The Delta of Venus, because the former is on the same list with War and Peace, Marcel Proust, with the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time https://realini.blogspot.com/2012/05/decameron.html that was not the same as The Veiled Woman

Before the Veiled Woman, I have read Lilith – the same name as the wife of Frasier https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-frasier-scripts-by-david-angell-and.html - wherein the husband tells his wife that he had given her a vial with the Spanish Fly, presumably, some sort of Viagra Avant la letter

 

The woman is off to the movies, and she is with a friend, she begins to fantasize, maybe the woman will put her hand on her sex, she spreads her legs, and experiences what would be called the Placebo Effect, thinking of this French man, who had the Spanish Fly and would go on for three nights and three days, without pause

However, it turns out that this was just a prank, there was no substance in there, and somehow, it shows how ‘there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’, which is from Hamlet, and it was all taking place in the mind, ‘which is its own place, it can make heaven out of hell, and hell out of heaven’ Paradise Lost

 

Perhaps the next tale, Marianne, is even more interesting, and arousing, albeit this depends on ‘what your poison is’, this woman is still a virgin, she writes the erotica that is brought to her, and starts imagining her lover, then this young, handsome fellow walks into her studio and says he wants his portrait done

Except, he wants to be naked, he is clearly an exhibitionist, and when she is enchanted with his body and especially the penis, he is erect, with clear, evident pleasure, but he is not making any move, he just comes to undress and have Marianne work at his painting, drawing him, and looking with intense desire at the man

 

Eventually, she comes near him, descends on her knees, puts her tongue on the penis and then ‘absorbed him’ – I stop here to think that it is one of the passages, maybe all make it clear, where the difference between Anais Nin and a mediocre writer of pornography is displayed, I never thought of a woman absorbing the phallus…

He came in her mouth, then he said ‘you are the first woman’ and repeated that, if I remember well, although he does not make any move to possess her, there is no penetration, Bill Clinton said ‘I did not have sex with that woman’, there are many who see felatio as something else, and oral sex more acceptable that intercourse

 

In my youth (I am still 35, biologically, what am I talking about) it was the other way round, most, almost all women saw felatio as disgusting (how could you bring something like that up), except, I had sex with more than a thousand, because I did not ask for oral sex, offered myself, cunnilingus was so rare and coveted in those years

Eventually, Marianne and this outré young man (I was going to say lover, but is he, does he qualify, is this just a preference, is it worse, Anais Nin throws some light on various penchants, styles, preferences, ways of having sex) keep in the same vein, she gives him blow jobs, they would say in the present, and he just enjoys it

 

There is a climax of another kind, Aristotle https://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/aristotle-in-ninety-minutes-by-paul.html wrote about the best dramas, the reversal and the climax, which happen at the same time in Oedipus Rex, when the king finds he had killed his father and married his mother, and takes out his eyes

The young man tells Marianne that he wants to be a model, so that others can paint him, but she is devasted and…jealous, which would seem so bizarre, given that the fellow does not, well, do anything, he is not into coitus, he just loves to be admired, exhibitionist, yes, but not ‘active’ in other ways…still, it is enough for Marianne to be against the move, she knows that he will have an intense pleasure, when the women (come to think of it, maybe the men too, it was not explained) will watch him, he will get erect and…well, in fact The Veiled Woman is for the next ‘review’, I was so taken aback by Marianne and Lilith that The Veiled Woman was left waiting…

 

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.”