Seduction of the Minotaur

by Anaïs Nin

2021-06-05 01:21:17

An excerpt from Seduction of the Minotaur:Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian''s recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushe... Read more
An excerpt from Seduction of the Minotaur:

Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian''s recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed.

She had landed in the city of Golconda, where the sun painted everything with gold, the lining of her thoughts, the worn valises, the plain beetles, Golconda of the golden age, the golden aster, the golden eagle, the golden goose, the golden fleece, the golden robin, the goldenrod, the goldenseal, the golden warbler, the golden wattles, the golden wedding, and the gold fish, and the gold of pleasure, the goldstone, the gold thread, the fool''s gold.

With her first swallow of air she inhaled a drug of forgetfulness well known to adventurers.
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ISBN9780804011495
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (Feb 21, 1903 – Jan 14, 1977), known professionally as Anaïs Nin, was a French-Cuban-American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of shor...

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