Just a few weeks before her 50th birthday, a tumor the size of an orange found on Anais Nin's right ovary is removed during an operation. To make this experience more palatable, Anais wears her red wool burnoose as she is wheeled to the X-Ray room.
She has recently paid for the printing of A Spy in the House of Love herself, having not found a publisher to back her. She continues to be aware of her "failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies and completely neglected."
This causes her psychic pain in addition to the physical pain she has felt related to the tumor in her ovary. Writing helps her transcend the pain and brings her into a self-created world which is not only tolerable, but often, beautiful.
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