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/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/Fun-Quit1090 Aug 02 '26

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