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The House of Incest

Anaïs Nin-Hugh Guiler House in Louveciennes, Paris

  • Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

Jul 31, 2023
Anaïs Nin-Hugh Guiler House in Louveciennes, Paris
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Photo: Kreg Wallace

Also see: Louveciennes and Le Vésinet

Milan

Milan

I went daily to the cathedral of Milan, that singular mountain which was torn out of the rocks of Carrara. I saw the church for the first time in the clear moonlight; dazzlingly white stood the upper part of it in the infinitely blue ether. Round about, wherever I looked,
Aug 25, 2025 1 min read
Can Melusine be freed with a kiss?

Can Melusine be freed with a kiss?

As everyone knows, Princess Fiona in Shrek was cursed to be transformed into an ogre every night, and only at the end of the movie with Shrek's kiss is she freed from the curse, to be her true self. Long before Shrek, there was the Roman de Mélusine
Aug 18, 2025 3 min read
There was a Chinese sequel to the Oz books

There was a Chinese sequel to the Oz books

When L. Frank Baum died in 1919, his Oz novels were continued by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by Baum's illustrator John R. Neill. Their very first collaboration, The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is set in China and there is plenty of imperialist yellow peril thinking going
Aug 11, 2025 2 min read
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  • A Tale of Two Women
  • The Age of Consent
  • Alice's Mirrors
  • Angel Incarnate
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Dreaming of the Virgin Mary
  • From Russia with Love
  • Homer's Women
  • The House of Incest
  • How to Look at a Naked Lady
  • Immortal Beloved
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Kama Sutra
  • Letters from Africa
  • Life as Opera
  • Loki's Children
  • Oz is China
  • Poison Pen Letters
  • Precious Bodily Fluids
  • Sacred Prostitute
  • Spinster
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Splendour in the Grass
  • The Town Square
  • Vampires in Venice
  • Voices and Saints
  • The Whore's Revenge
  • The Woman in the Bower
  • Women in Trousers
  • About the Author
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