Phi’s Reviews > Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940 > Status Update

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.