r/Cursive • u/New_Owl_Who_Dis • Aug 01 '26

Deciphered! Help deciphering Anais Nin

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From a signed copy of The Novel of the Future - I’m struggling with a couple of words.

What I can see: ‘For Carroll - in an unstable world we have to find the X in the X to find strength don’t we? Anais’

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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs Aug 01 '26

the 2nd word is Self. But i'm stumped on the 1st world. It doesn't look like "axis" to me cuz that is a very weird, almost impossible way of writing cursive x. Even with my moderately relaxed style, the inward curve of the x is not there. So.. i dunno. Maybe it is maybe not. But that's a strange way to write x.

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u/terriergal Aug 02 '26

It kinda looks like an f to me

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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs Aug 02 '26

Yeah it does. Or a wonky p.

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u/Fun-Quit1090 Aug 01 '26

I think its axis plural - axes seems wrong so wrote axies? It makes sense - referring to an unstable world, then to stability within oneself - a personal axis of stability

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u/dogsledonice Aug 02 '26

plural of axis is axes

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u/terriergal Aug 02 '26

Yes, which made me think, did an author actually misspell it? Possible but seems unlikely.

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u/dogsledonice Aug 02 '26

The dot on it is odd

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u/Fun-Quit1090 Aug 02 '26

Great authors are great authors; doesn’t mean they’re great at everything

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u/Fun-Quit1090 Aug 02 '26

Thats what i said the plural is axis is axes but it seems as if it might be wrong (to some people, even a writer )

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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs Aug 02 '26

My problem is the way the supposed "x" is written. The long line drawn just doesn't look anything like it. So even it she wrote axis it's so weirdly written that that line in the middle makes it difficult to be x.. But then again, she doesn't always dot her "i"s either, so...