Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian s recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed. With her first swallow of air she inhaled a drug of forgetfulness well known to adventurers. "Seduction of the Minotaur" is the fifth and final volume of Anais Nin s continuous novel known as "Cities of the Interior." First published by Swallow Press in 1961, the story follows the travels of the protagonist Lillian through the tropics to a Mexican city loosely based on Acapulco, which Nin herself visited in 1947 and described in the fifth volume of her Diary. As Lillian seeks the warmth and sensuality of this lush and intriguing...
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