tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post3920693972578657723..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Free Women in ParisFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-26959491691867909492009-08-19T10:29:27.475-05:002009-08-19T10:29:27.475-05:00Thanks for the link to your good work, Paul!Thanks for the link to your good work, Paul!Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-75856918318642675122009-08-10T09:28:50.610-05:002009-08-10T09:28:50.610-05:00About Anais Nin--it is indeed a shame that one nee...About Anais Nin--it is indeed a shame that one needs to reconstruct the life of a diarist, of all things. But when Diary 1 appeared in 1966, there was no choice, for reasons of privacy (a paradox) and the wishes of personages in Nin's life (her husband, for example, who chose to be deleted entirely from its pages), but to publish an aberrated version of her life. The "truth" was "psychological" rather than "literal," leaving readers to fill in the holes, eventually being helped by the publication of the unexpurgated volumes after the death of Nin's significant others and biographies. Visit http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com as we are dedicated to filling in these holes.Paul Herronhttp://anaisninblog.skybluepress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-22203235717860292312009-08-10T09:10:10.379-05:002009-08-10T09:10:10.379-05:00Coco Chanel, Anais Nin... and so many others of th...Coco Chanel, Anais Nin... and so many others of that era--ridiculously easy to over-romanticize, of course, but if they feed our souls, there are worse things.<br /><br />The trick is, I realized, for me not to get caught up in mooning over other people's artistic lives in Paris, but to *lead my very own artistic life* right here where I am.<br />Or to paraphrase David Copperfield, to be the author of my own life.<br /><br />I don't mind knowing that memoir/diaries are constructs, or storytelling--made up of what David Sedaris calls "trueish facts" (or was that Stephen Colbert?), though I don't like to feel taken in. <br />But mainly, I just don't want to lie to myself, don't want to forget where the line is between artistic construct and lived experience. That's what I don't respect--in myself or others.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-5747664721222581692009-08-10T05:30:38.298-05:002009-08-10T05:30:38.298-05:00That Stein quote is just fantastic, and those are ...That Stein quote is just fantastic, and those are some gorgeous photos. I remember being fascinated with Anais Nin (who intersects tangentally with this society) and her diaries for much the same reason, although as I realized how much the diaries were constructions I lost some respect for her (yet in a postmodernist sense I suppose I've regained it--constructing a self is no minor business!)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13923745480765984429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-69744732316931256382009-08-09T22:49:08.290-05:002009-08-09T22:49:08.290-05:00In London I saw "Coco avant Chanel", the...In London I saw "Coco avant Chanel", the new film about her early life, with Audrey Tatou. It will probably be here soon--she came from a really hard-scrabble life, and the film makes it really clear how marriage, being a mistress and being a prostitute were sometimes just slightly different roles. <br /><br />Your filming seems to be stirring up your creativity--your writing has been grand lately!momohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149328149132703479noreply@blogger.com