New author to discover
It may look now as if people educated to use our newest technologies efficiently are the world's elite, but in the long run I believe that people educated to have, as well, that point of view that used to be described as humanistic - the long-term, over-all, contemplative point of view - will turn out to be more influential. Simply because they understand more of what is going on in the world...
To my mind the whole push and thrust and development of the world is towards the more complex, the flexible, the open-minded, the ability to entertain many ideas, sometimes contradictory ones, in one's mind at the same time.
Doris Lessing Prisons we choose to live inside.
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I finished reading this tiny book by Doris Lessing and looking forward to reading her other works. She sounds like fascinating wise woman.
2 comments:
Oh man she is one of my alltime favourite authors.
For a wonderful novel on the Southern African experience read The Grass is Singing.
She makes Nadine Gordimer look silly!
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