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A review by snoodster
Ladders to Fire by Anaïs Nin
5.0
I think Anais Nin understands people really really well. She describes thoughts, feelings, and motivations with a perceptive insight. She doesn't explain these things as if she is talking about human nature, but just her intuition of how people are. My favourite quote from the book:
"He had the appetite of the age of giants. He could read the fattest books, tackle the most immense paintings, cover the vastest territories in his wanderings, attack the most solemn system of ideas, produce the greatest quantity of work. He excluded nothing: everything was food. He could eat the trivial and the puerile, the ephemeral and the gross, the scratchings on the wall, the phrase of a passerby, the defect on a face, the pale sonata streaming from a window, the snoring of a beggar on a bench, flowers on the wallpaper of a hotel room, the odour of cabbage on a stairway, the haunches of a bareback rider in the circus. His eyes devoured details, his hands leaped to grasp. His whole body was like a sensitive sponge, drinking, eating, absorbing with a million cells of curiosity."
"He had the appetite of the age of giants. He could read the fattest books, tackle the most immense paintings, cover the vastest territories in his wanderings, attack the most solemn system of ideas, produce the greatest quantity of work. He excluded nothing: everything was food. He could eat the trivial and the puerile, the ephemeral and the gross, the scratchings on the wall, the phrase of a passerby, the defect on a face, the pale sonata streaming from a window, the snoring of a beggar on a bench, flowers on the wallpaper of a hotel room, the odour of cabbage on a stairway, the haunches of a bareback rider in the circus. His eyes devoured details, his hands leaped to grasp. His whole body was like a sensitive sponge, drinking, eating, absorbing with a million cells of curiosity."