Status Updates From Reunited: The Correspondenc...

«You are preparing a "new life that will soar high"… there you are alive, immense, beautiful, free and symphonic. Then you speak of exaltation, of drunkenness, ecstasy...
Still, the wings of affection to escape the heaviness of life very often crash!« .»

«And so, it turns out, the problem always remains. You can create the atmosphere inside: dimensions, blueprints, shadows and lights, colors, shapes, transitions, angles, lines, fabrics, perfumes, furniture, etc., but you cannot escape the city—it makes you sick...»

«I am restless. I want to move. Yet I want to rest somewhere. And I am neurotic, I know—fearfully so. [...] I have lost my joy.»

«Strange days. Weather bad, so I created my own weather. I overlooked the place, the hotel. I lived within myself, writing letters, dreaming, contented.»

Joaquin gives her recommendations of tonics and supplements, cautions her against gambling, urges her to exercise, to clean her cigarette holder conscientiously, and asks if she wants him to mail her the wallet she left at the hotel they stayed in.

"In the moments of love, with his glasses off and his long hair disheveled — it frightened me to see a woman — a Grecian woman. The shortsighted eyes unfocused as a woman's when she faints with feeling. This strange impression haunted me. I closed my eyes. It arrested me. I closed my eyes."

Anais's relationship with lesbianism reflected in her bond with her father. How she sought and repelled his androgeny.