Diary (December 25, 2020)

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Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday December 25, 2020.

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Anaïs Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977), known professionally as Anaïs Nin (/ænə.iːs niːn/, French: [ana.is nin]) was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of composer Joaquín Nin and Rosa Culmell, a classically trained singer. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an author.

Nin wrote journals prolifically from age eleven until her death. Her journals, many of which were published during her lifetime, detail her private thoughts and personal relationships. Her journals also describe her marriages to Hugh Parker Guiler and Rupert Pole, in addition to her numerous affairs, including those with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and writer Henry Miller, both of whom profoundly influenced Nin and her writing.

In addition to her journals, Nin wrote several novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and volumes of erotica. Much of her work, including the collections of erotica Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously amid renewed critical interest in her life and work. Nin spent her later life in Los Angeles, California, where she died of cervical cancer in 1977.

Death Star brazier

Death Star brazier

The Corpse of Your Attorney

The Corpse of Your Attorney

Batman vs. Punisher

Batman vs. Punisher - "Who Would Win in a Fight?

Spoonerism

Category: Spoonerism (nonfiction)

Sarskoye Gorodishche

"Visited Sarskoye Gorodishche to escape death, and boy does it smell bad! But either this or join the corpses outside the walls, which smell much worse."

"At least these people eat dead horses, and not each other."

Niles Cartouchian

  • Sarskoye Gorodishche @ Wikipedia - Sarskoye Gorodishche or Sarsky fort (Russian: Сарское городище, literally "Citadel on the Sara") was a medieval fortified settlement in the Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia. It was situated on the bank of the Sara River, a short distance from Lake Nero, to the south of modern Rostov, of which it seems to have been the early medieval predecessor.

Harpy Holidays

Harpy Holidays

Obliquer-than-thou

Obliquer-than-thou

Archaic and marginal

Archaic to our time, and marginal to my thinking.

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