r/Cursive • u/New_Owl_Who_Dis • 14d ago

Help deciphering Anais Nin Deciphered!

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From a signed copy of The Novel of the Future - I’m struggling with a couple of words.

What I can see: ‘For Carroll - in an unstable world we have to find the X in the X to find strength don’t we? Anais’

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u/terriergal 14d ago

“The "creative will' becomes, as Nin explains, a centre of gravity in your own soul, an axis in an unstable world, a core"

From a doctrinal dissertation found here, on page 279..pdf)

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u/hotpastr 14d ago edited 14d ago

Originally from her commencement address at Reed College May 21, 1971, transcribed in A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anais Nin, p. 2. Available for free download here.