Anais Nin connects with the poet George Barker, and everything flows as they talk and she realizes they are both searching for heightened living where they can love and write and dream and work and talk and sleep.
She meets Frances Steloff who opened the Gotham Book Mart almost 22 years earlier. Anais describes Frances as having antennae and a gift for friendship while welcoming "the unusual, the uncommercial, the avant-garde."
Anais takes a loft on Macdougal Street, across from the Provincetown theater on the top floor of an old house, surrounded by similar houses, giving the feeling of the casual, artist's life. Now this is heightened living.
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