A literate passion : letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Miller, Henry, 1891-, Authors, American
Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1987-08-15T05:00:00+00:00

but I'm overwhelmed by the heat. I wonder if you are suffering from it.

But even though the heat mists, I single out the ring of this phrase as the first beautiful one. It seems to begin there: "I felt eternal and without knowledge of its meaning." And from there on, the mood is effective, moving . . . the walk through the streets etc. Up to the movies—Lil Dagover. Here it becomes too factual—listless. But in paragraph "We step across the street again to the office" there is a fine feeling—"triumph from the bottom"—good—human! On the whole I'm afraid you forced yourself to write it. When I think of those imaginative, amazing pages you wrote in Louveciennes for [Black] Spring I wonder why you should ever force yourself to write and feel conscience stricken. You could afford to sit back on those pages. It seems to me Eugene came off better in the novel and the streets, too, if I remember, and all your moods. In this there is nothing new or that you have not written better elsewhere. Am I right—someday you'll get intoxicated with that period again and then watch! But wait until you're drunk with your subject—with June too—always drunk!

Friday a.m. Nothing from you today. I hope that check reached you on time. If I had had the money I would have telegraphed it. Couldn't ask Hugh. Monday I'll bring you more.

You must be suffering with heat. No more thinking. Just feeling, and waiting for Monday.

A.

[Clichy] Thursday [August 3, 1933] Ana'is:

The enclosed letter to Bradley, which I leave to your discretion to send or not to send, states the case for your pages.* Sorry to cut short

*In nine typed pages, dated August 2, 1933, Miller made a strong plea for the unadulterated publication of A. N.'s diary. Bradley, who had seen some of the childhood volumes in their entirety, and some of the later volumes in an excised and somewhat disguised form, apparently had suggested an "adaptation" of some of the material to make it more palatable for commercial publication. "Can you be certain," Miller wrote, "that what you find uninteresting will not appeal to thousands, perhaps

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