Tides of the moon

"The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat, it was strangling me. I broke the thread that held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said I have just spat out my heart. There is an instrument called the quena, made of human bones. It owes it origin to the worship of a Indian mistress. When she died he made a flute out of her bones. The quena has a more penetrating, more haunting sound than the ordinary flute. Those who write know the process. I thought of it as spitting out my heart only I do not wait for my love to die" Anais Nin on writing House Of Incest.