Episode 612: A Discussion of Anaïs Nin’s Little Birds!

February 10, 2024

Episode 612: A Discussion of Anaïs Nin’s Little Birds!

Samantha Nickerson and I delve into Anaïs Nin’s posthumously published slender volume of erotica, Little Birds.

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2 responses to “Episode 612: A Discussion of Anaïs Nin’s Little Birds!”

D J Rout

February 10, 2024 at 4:51 pm

Great episode!

One of the minor points was the use of ‘Oriental’ to describe a person. You’re quite that it elides all the differences in culture between people of the same race, and it therefore should’t be used. So that got me thinking about ‘South Asian’. In my benighted polity this term embraces Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis – the whole subcontinent and abutting countries – and the US Vice President, who’s as American as the Constitution requires her to be. In the first case we’re more specific now, in the second case more general. Weird.

The more important part was hearing opinions on erotica from, sort of, opposite ends of a timeline. Ms Nickerson’s discovery of erotica through fanfic was interesting, and it was most engaging that she could talk about it without getting shrill. I wonder what she would make of all the teacher/studnet pairings in the HP fanfic out there? A discussion of stories about this illegal activity came up in my local circle the other week. But it’s fiction, so nobody is really getting hurt, I suppose. (The real OTP is Scabbers and Buckbeak.)

I was ascribing that hair description – ‘ick’ is le mot juste – to a poor translation, but apparently Ms Nin wrote in English, so I don’t know. Both of you made me feel old…

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1. thedrunkenodyssey
 
 February 10, 2024 at 8:52 pm
 
 I make myself feel old every day, DJ.
 
 A friend of mine once insisted on calling me a Yankee despite living most of my life in Florida. But anyone born in New England is a yankee to Texas eyes.
 
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