'stories in the morning... diaries at night'

'I write my stories in the morning, my diaries at night.' - anais nin

will you look at this - an entirely written in the morning blogpost 

well it's another beautiful day in the countryside. it starts cool and sunny. today the bins (waste horsemouth believes). 

above a  meeting of jazz and arabic music at various public or open-air venues in tunisia. the results are usually a bit undewhelming - the tunisian musicians play, the jazz musicians play what they can play, neither side can really see the other. there's a lack of ability to respond. 

don cherry, sahib shibab, george gruntz, henri texier, daniel humair, salah el mahdi, moktar slama, jelloul osman and hattab jounini.

still it's great to see. 

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'I thought the press would solve our economic problems.' 

- anais nin, the journal of anais nin volume three. 

unable to get her works published in america (winter of artifice mainly) anais nin buys a printing press, and with her friend gonzalo, sets it up and learns to use it at her flat in macdougal street. she learns typesetting. she then begins printing her own works and starts casting around for the works of others. 

they print on offcut paper left over from other printing jobs and thus cheaper. the bookbinders object to binding something of a non-standard size but eventually one is found who is willing to do it. 

her friends all  announce they are going to buy printing presses. 

the book they produce everyone describes as beautiful but the reviews from the critics are bad. 

it is typical of anais to cut the gordian knot of publishing. but her friends don't have the vision to follow her into it, nor, seemingly, the money to pay for other books to be published. 

earlier anais had been writing pornography to order (and indeed got her friends to do it) - again faced by the need to make a living (and to support her friends) she had found a way out and round.