Nu doar bărbații scriu și iubesc pasional (simplu sau labirintic), ci și femeile – evident. Iat-o pe dezinhibata și extravaganta (exotic de frumoasa) franțuzoaică și cubaneză Anaïs Nin (pe numele ei întreg Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell !!!) scriindu-i explicativ și complicat experimentatului Henry (Valentine) Miller (the great lover!), între ea și Miller interpunându-se fantasma și în același timp realitatea lui June, soția lui Henry Miller. A fost, de altfel, un ménage psihic à trois, obsedant doar până la un punct, June fiind eliminată în cele din urmă de performanta și inteligenta Nin, dar și de Miller însuși, incapabil să fie loial unui singur trup de femeie și mare amator de prostituate care să nu-i încâlcească viața. Mariajul lui Nin cu Hugh Parker Guiler nu a suferit din pricina boemei erotice a Anaïsei cu Henry, mai târziu Nin practicând chiar mariajul dublu, în paralel, cu Guiler și Rupert Pole. Scrisoarea din care citez mai jos este mult mai amplă, am selectat doar miezul ei. Fotografia afrodisiacă (ultima) cu Nin și Miller este cât se poate de emblematică pentru relația lor picantă.
[…] Aware of you, chaotically, I love this strange treacherous softness of you which always turns to hatred. How did I single you out? I saw you with that intense selective way – I saw a mouth that was at once intelligent, animal and soft … strange mixture – a human man, sensitively aware of everything – I love awareness – a man, I told you, whom life made drunk. Your laughter was not a laughter which could hurt, it was mellow and rich. I felt warm, dizzy, and I sang within myself. You always said the truest and deepest things – slowly – and you have a way of saying, like a southerner – hem, hem – trailingly, while off on your own introspective journey – which touched me.
Just before that I sought, as I told you, suicide. But I waited to meet you, as if that would solve something – and it did. When I saw you I thought, here is a man I could love. And I was no longer afraid of feelings. I couldn’t go through with the suicide (idea of killing off romanticism), something held me back. I can only move wholly…
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I thought I was in love with your mind and genious (I read you what I thought of your mind and writing) chaos only with June. I felt your mind watching me. I didn’t want love because it is chaos, and it makes the mind vacillate like wind-blown lanterns. I wanted to be very strong before you, to be against you – you love so to be against things. I love to be for things. You make caricatures. It takes great hate to make caricatures. I elect, I love – the welling of love stifles me at night – as in a dream which you struggled to make real yesterday – to nail down, yes, with your engulfing kiss.
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