Delta of Venus is a book of short stories by Anaïs Nin. Though the stories were largely written in the 1940s while Nin was writing erotica for a private collector, the book was first published posthumously in 1978. In 1995 a film version of the book was directed by Zalman King. There are multiple short stories in this work with certain important characters reappearing throughout. She deals with many different sexual themes, some of them very taboo— including abuse, incest, homosexuality, prostitution, infidelity, and paedophilia— while maintaining the focus of her life's work: the study and description of woman.

Background

The collection of short stories that makes up this anthology was written during the 1940s for a private client known simply as "Collector"'. This "Collector" commissioned Nin, along with other now well-known writers (including Henry Miller), to produce erotic fiction for his private consumption. Despite being told to leave poetic language aside and concentrate on graphic, sexually explicit scenarios, Nin was able to give these stories a literary flourish and a layer of images and ideas beyond the pornographic. In the introduction, she called herself "the madam of this snobbish literary house of prostitution".

The stories range in length, and are tied together not just by their sexual premises, but also by Nin's distinct style and feminine viewpoint.

Here finally is "Bluebeard" as I should have called it before, and it is short but truly amazing.

Bluebeard

by Sylvia Plath

I am sending back the key

that let me into bluebeard's study;

because he would make love to me

I am sending back the key;

in his eye's darkroom I can see

my X-rayed heart, dissected body :

I am sending back the key

that let me into bluebeard's study.

Sylvia Plath killed herself by sticking her head in an oven and breathing the fumes until she was dead. 

I had just started reading Fear Agent by Rick Remender a couple of weeks ago, it’s an awesome sci-fi pulp comic. If you enjoy that type of stuff it’s worth a read, so with a little research and advice, I decided to pick up Strange Girl. I managed to get the complete series in a limited slipcase version for under 20 bucks and it even had the signed print.

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The Cherry Orchard 

This play review is on another light-hearted, comedic, and nostalgic tale by a brilliant playwright. There are four main characters in the play, all family members. The mother is Lyubov, who is extrememely empathetic, gives her money and belongings away to those in need, and cherishes her childhood home. Her brother, Gaev, also loves their home, is humorous, and impulsive. The two arrive at the home they had left long ago with Lyubov's two daughters, Varya and Anya, the other two characters who seem to be central in the play. There is a beautiful orchard on their property. 

The main thrust of the play is that the family has lost or spent so much money that the house and property are in arrears, and may soon be sold soon to someone else if the family cannot come up with enough money to keep it.

The characters in the play are all beautifully drawn, and the plot keeps you on your seat a bit. The family's love for their home and orchard is touching. I think if I were to meet these characters in real life they would be interesting to know; good-hearted, likable, and a bit eccentric, as well.

As I have said, Anton Chekov was an amazing, Russian playwright and short story teller, and he is usually considered a master in his own right. My book of great Russian plays actually contained six plays, and not four, as I had probably indicated when I made my post about Turgenev's play entitled A Month in the Country. If you have a chance, try the book with the four plays, including The Cherry Orchard, A Month in the Country, The Inspector General by Gogol, and The Lower Depths by Gorky. I can't believe the two plays not in this book included one by Tolstoy and Andreyev, as they are unbelievable writers, themselves. How can one even talk about Russian literature without mentioning Tolstoy? Well, in the introduction in my book it says Americans walk out of plays that are dark, which probably explains why. Tolstoy's play is called The Power of Darkness, and Andreyev's is entitled He Who Gets Slapped. They are both deep, psychological, and at least somewhat dark, which is a hallmark for a lot of Russian writing. I did not like Gogol's satirical play as much, although it was entertaining, and The Lower depths is only a little dark at one point, but it is only my opinion. The book on google is well-worth reading, and I think is called Four Great Russian Plays.

This is a book review of a book I read by Cuban/French writer Anais Nin, and the book is entitled Collages. It is about a book of brief vignettes about colorful eccentrics the main character, Renate, has known. Nin paints pictures with words like an artist, which is Renate's profession, with unique and amazing imagery that is completely one-of-a-kind.

You do not know that the title, Collages, refers to another character until at least half-way into the book. The character, Varda, is an artist, as well, who only makes Collages made from different pieces of exquisite cloth. His own daughter prefers science to his artwork, and does not like or accept his work because it reminds her of all the beautiful women he has known.

There are tons of portraits of peculiar and wonderful creative people in different areas of the arts who are featured in Collages on Nin's, and likewise Renate's canvas in this book. They are all visually stunning images and Nin's style is like no other I have ever read. My copy of this book is only 122 pages. It is an amazing story that does not appear to have a tie with the beginning of the book, which is during Renate's childhood, until the end of the book. Then the story suddenly has a direct correlation to it and a pattern that you will not understand until practically the last page. This book is unique, and definitely worth reading.

all right , the above is difficult to explain so Ill let someone else do it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Daughters_of_Eve

That book is meant for lay-people like me. A more scientific is here.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/humanmigration.shtml

Its the story of how a special kind of DNA tells us how and when humans migrated out
of Africa . It has been known now for a long time that ALL humans can be traced back to
Africa. ...that every human is related to every other human if you go back far enough.
They have PROOF of this now . Brittney Spears and Mike Tyson have the same
 grand parents...in Africa.

Brain Sykes (above) writes a lot about the 7 major groups in Europe .
 It might be 9 or 10 by now.

Because of these new tests ...scientist now say that KING TUT ...was a white guy.
google ' King Tut MtDNA ' , if you like .

If you wanna see what tinylotuscult looks like, then http://tinylotuslinkslist.blogspot.com/

Saturn Storm - Late last year, a new, remarkably bright storm erupted in Saturn’s northern hemisphere. Amateur astronomers first spotted it in early December, with the ringed gas giant rising in planet Earth’s predawn sky. Orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft was able to record this close-up of the complex disturbance from a distance of 1.8 million kilometers on December 24th. Over time, the storm has evolved, spreading substantially in longitude, and now stretches far around the planet. Saturn’s thin rings are also seen slicing across this space-based view, casting broad shadows on the planet’s southern hemisphere

Earth , Jupiter and Venus ...seen from Mars / We will soon need an entirely new Astrology for the kids taht are  born on the moon and Mars . ...Welcome to tinylotus_science !!!

An international team, led by EXOEarths researchers (Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, CAUP), proposes that metals like magnesium might have an important role in the formation of low mass planets.

The team, lead by CAUP researcher Vardan Zh. Adibekyan, analyzed high resolution spectra of 1,111 Sun-like stars, obtained by the HARPS spectrograph (ESO). Of these stars, 109 are known to harbor high mass (Jupiter-like) planets, and 26 have Neptune-like planetary companions.

The team focused especially on studying the abundance of alphaelements in these stars, like magnesium (Mg), silicon (Si) or titanium (Ti). The research found that the ratio of these, compared with the amount of iron (Fe), was consistently higher in stars with planets, with the greatest discrepancy observed for Mg.

The lead author of the paper, CAUP Astronomer Vardan Zh. Adibekyan, commented, “These findings indicate that some metals other than iron are involved in the process of planet formation, especially when the amount of iron is lower than solar. These results may provide strong constraints for the models of planet formation, especially for planets with low mass.”

The leading theories of planet formation suggest that planets form by clumping smaller particles of heavy elements (metals), into larger and larger bodies. The results put forward by the present study suggest that planets need a minimum amount of “metals” to be formed. The formation of planets, even the lowest mass ones, is dependent on the dust content of the cloud that gave origin to the star and planetary system.