Anais Nin writes in a letter:
"I understand loneliness better than anyone in the world, that is why I do answer letters and when you speak of your poverty of people I remember the times and places which were not lifegiving. Must you stay there? One should make a courageous effort to leave empty or lonely places. Life is much too precious. Looking back I can see how we create our own destiny, the negative aspects by our passivity. We should never accept poverty of life. I know it's difficult to face the unknown, to create another job, or another way of life. But if it is up to you, do not accept the void."
Anais is hospitalized with double pneumonia in March of 1959 but recovers in time to do a reading at Harvard.
She puts her continuous novels together into a collection called Cities of the Interior, which includes Ladders to Fire (which opens with This Hunger), Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, and Solar Barque (which later become the opening section of Seduction of the Minotaur).
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