Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Aha!

So a couple months ago I read Pleasure by Eric Jerome Dickey. Honestly, the book wasn't that great, but what DID interest me, was the focus around Anais Nin. Now before reading the novel I had never heard of this woman. But Dickey gives the main character a clear obsession with the lady, so you can't help but want to know more about her. So to sum Anais Nin up, the was a feminites in the 1800's that became famous off of her diaries. At the end of the novel there was a quote from her, and I was just googling her to find that specific quote, and found this one instead...

"Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child-bearing and man-bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment the man rests inside of her."



Now, I immediately fell in love with this quote. I feel like it hits the nail right on the head and explains what hoes and the moral nimphos out there are looking for. I love it!

1 comment:

  1. felt the same way about the book, but/and the character's interest in this woman made me research her as well. Nice post.

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