literate passion by Anais Nin

Author:Anais Nin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nin, Anaïs, -- 1903-1977 -- Correspondence, Miller, Henry, -- 1891- -- Correspondence, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence, Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1989-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

your exciting labors, your hopes, etc. But this is my honest view. The pages were all right—neither good nor bad, neither fish nor fowl. As I read them I seemed to hear the original lines from which they were abstracted, saw the wavering handwriting, and the curious childlike drawings, the mistakes, the bad spelling, the ink spots, the greasy finger-prints, the cheap paper (which is so touching in itself—the cheapest for genius always!). I rebelled. It is a crime to tamper with the original document. It is almost a sacrilege to print it. It should be preserved, like the first copies of the Gutenberg Bible, under a glass case. There should be no exemplars. There should be four posts and a velvet rope around the glass case. Not even the air that people breathe, that they foul with their dirty lungs, should be allowed to contaminate it. That's what I personally think! I couldn't say that to Bradley. But I hope I said enough. I hope to Christ he gets sore and gives us all the slip. Let him get down on his knees and beg for it. They will yet—you mark my words. Just hold out! Keep on believing in yourself, and trust in Providence. I can see the world knocking at your door. And vacations with ample allowances. I see it all, because, damn it, had I never met you that Journal would have affected me precisely as it does now. It grows better and better in retrospect. It must not be aborted. You must not be brought down to the level of Luhan, Stein, Duncan, Bashkirtsev.

Henry

[Louveciennes] [August 6, 1933] [Henry:]

I was overwhelmed when I received your letter, and all the more so because I was at the very moment writing in my journal on the irony in our talk about what my faith and love had done to you. Ironic, I say,

millions of others? ... I am thinking of the work as if it were actually launched. I am thinking of the Japanese reader, the Hindu reader, the Spanish reader, the Scandinavian reader. ... I am thinking of the reader to come in the year 2,000 a.d. and later, when the original manuscript, with the correct names, is brought to light. ..." This "Letter to William Bradley" was eventually published in the section "More About Anais Nin," in the collection Sunday After the War (Norfolk, CT: New Directions, August 1944). According to a note in A. N.'s unpublished diary, the letter was never sent, and it was made public only after Bradley's death.

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