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Thursday, October 11, 2007
The prose of writer Doris Lessing... ...captures Sweden's highest blessing. I was thinking about a passage in a Lessing novel a couple of days ago, while brewing some Marco Polo tea. It's from The Golden Notebook, her best-known work, and it has the book's narrator, Anna Wulf, a British woman, recalling the time she bedded a stranger -- an American doctor she'd just met on a plane. She quotes him saying, at the moment of truth, things like [UD doesn't remember the exact quotation] "Hey wow! This is really great! I mean, ma'am, this is super-duper!" |