A Model and Other Stories by Anais Nin, the author of Elena, included in the collection The Delta of Venus, which is included on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, most likely in the Love section, my note on Elena is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/11/elena-by-anais-nin-is-part-of-delta-of.html - 8 out of 10

 

A Model and Other Stories by Anais Nin, the author of Elena, included in the collection The Delta of Venus, which is included on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, most likely in the Love section, my note on Elena is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/11/elena-by-anais-nin-is-part-of-delta-of.html

 

8 out of 10

 

The (erotic) stories of Anais Nin are so distracting, I was thinking it is hard to have an opinion on them, at least close to objective, because you find yourself so excited by the blunt, explicit descriptions, sex scenes that…well, the thought of Buddha comes to mind, for all the wrong reasons, Buddhists and sex, is it an oxymoron?

 

Why The Buddha, just because divinity, those religious figures work in mysterious ways…no, in fact it is that thing with the arrow, some disciple was asking about God, details, and The Enlighted One says something along the lines of ‘you worry about this, just like the man who is pierced by a poisoned arrow, curious to know:

 

-          Who was it, what village?

 

When he has to address the danger, never mind the source…’ there is wisdom there, there must be, we are talking about the Serene One, brought back to earth and the sensual, arousing tales of Anais Nin, ‘the poison’ of the fornication, the multiple positions, orgasms, change of partners, orientation, tastes, olala!

I better stop quoting, or else I am censored, again, I have two posts on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-veiled-woman-by-anais-nin-this-is.html that come with a warning or something, just because there are some lines from this admittedly steaming hot narrative style

 

The thing is, how is it possible to have access to something like this, not that I mind, on the contrary, but just like the cover on my two posts proves, it can be, what, distressing, causing hypertension, heart attack…

We have to consider under age people, Australia has just banned the use of social networks for under sixteen, maybe a good thing, anyway, there are so few visitors where I park my notes, it is not a danger, besides…

 

There is the book itself

 

Some passages deal with perversion, absolutely, no question about it, but then we must know about it, in order to have protection, probably, there is The Hungarian Adventurer, who falls for a dancer in south America

That is not the issue, she is having sex – or is it something else, I remember there was this debate, connected with Bill Clinton, when he had that thing with Monica Lewinsky and kept insisting ‘I did not have sex with that woman’, presumably a felatio is not that for some people – in the public arena of a theater hall

 

Only the sensitive part relates to The Hungarian Adventurer’s time in Rome, when he plays with two girls, one ten and the other twelve – if I am not mistaken, they are clearly not just under age, but children, really

He has them jump on him, and then it gets ugly, in the sense that he has orgasms, through the clothes or something, but this is still statutory rape, perhaps not called this back then, maybe a hundred years ago, but still

 

Another, more recent story ahs this other girl, interested in a boy of her age, who is alas very rude to her, worse, this is cruelty, accusing her of being ‘just like her prostitute mother’, and rejecting her attempts to get closer

However, her adoptive father is not just attracted to her, he has the skill, knowledge, savoir faire to, what do they call it, it is not gas light, maybe that too, but I think it is ‘grooming’, he leads her into situations that he can use

 

They visit this place, and he sees that the girl is maturing, she has desires, and she has no way of fulfilling them with this inept fellow, her age, but hostile, so the mature male is pushing his interests, near the limit

He is rejected, when he comes close to kiss her, but that is in the first instance, then the rapprochement appears inevitable, jokingly we could add that by now, this is maybe story number twelve, we know the way it ends

 

Indeed, sex is not just soon on the menu, it is steaming hot, she kisses his sex, and…just about then, what do you think, the initial winner enters the room, they have some arrangement in the house, with connecting rooms

She promises the young man that she is not the depraved creature he thinks her to be, and to prove it, she would sleep by him, chaste, so they go on to test this evidence, nothing happens, expect the fellow becomes interested, so we have a menage a trois, threesome, with the girl sleeping at daytime with the adult and at night, with the now connected stallion, just like in Boccaccio https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/10/los-mejores-cuentos-eroticos-aka-best.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.”