Anaïs Nin

I forgot about reading Cosmo.

I was talking about like reading Anais Nin and like Anne Rice at a young age.

So that didn't really translate.

Right.

And I feel like with this metronome, it's kind of the same with you, but maybe the problem or the interesting thought is that we think that we have to keep it in the middle.

that we think that we need to have both things you know i need to be a creative and i also need to be super present in the relationship but as you say you know presence require different motions of time and and time is very relative when you're present and not present so i really do feel that more than balancing both what we need is to create a bigger range of motion between both And the more that we let the pendulum swing completely to one side and be completely immersed, infatuated with your partner, partners, you know, one night, one weekend, the more you're going to be able to come to the other side of the pendulum and, you know, have your Anais Nin moment and...

i feel like creativity is always a yes and you know situation and what we say in creative living is that creativity is really like you plus your creativity equals your body of work and i do think it's a really intimate process sometimes that you cannot balance period you know we like to think that creativity is something that you need to balance but unfortunately you need to sit and create a relationship with it And I cannot tell you how long that's going to take.

And for me, when I am in full, full, full creative mode, I mean, my boyfriend, my fiance, you guys, he is, I owe you a story.

I'm Charlotte and I'm Daphne and this is Petticoat Revolution.

Anais Nin was a French-Cuban writer who became famous for turning her private life into literature, meaning she had many secrets.

She kept a diary for nearly her entire life, carefully editing the truth and reinventing herself so many times that some of her biggest secrets didn't come out until after her death.

She had a long affair with provocative writer Henry Miller, dove into the world of 1930s psychoanalysis, and even had an incestuous relationship with her own father.

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And today, through the pages of her diaries, we're uncovering the elusive world of Anais Nin.

This story, I gotta say, is like a freaking psychological labyrinth full of desire and obsession.

And Robert was on acid, but I had never even seen acid in person.

I had only read about it, like in Anais Nin or Henry Miller books.

I'd never seen anybody on acid, and we just talked all night.

And then in the end he said, "Do you have a place to stay?" And I said, "No." And neither did he.

We all carry endless hidden selves and latent worlds waiting for the right graze to bring them to the surface."

Sounds like Maya Wilbrink and Anais Nin.

That's correct.

Yeah.

Right.

Um, but I think like erotica, uh, too in particular, like A, it's I think the best erotica, you know, stuff like Anaïs Nin when I think of...

And, you know, Angela Carter in terms of stuff that, um, manages to be like artistically beautiful on top of, of whatever physiological effect it may or may not have.

Um, you know, it tends to be playing, yeah, in like a very dreamlike space that doesn't, can't like bear the, the full gaze of reality, so to speak.