I've only read a couple of Lessing things. One was for a Sci-fi class, I forget the title, it was okay. I picked up The Golden Notebook in a used bookstore on the strength of remembering her name from that class and the copy on the back cover being interesting. I have to give her technical kudos for creating, as a reviewer put it "structure like a diamond", but the story that it told and the truths it had to impart were not as impressive.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Oct 11, 2007 10:15:32 am PDT #6163 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dana - Oct 11, 2007 10:15:51 am PDT #6164 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
According to Reuters, she had a slightly different take on the Nobel Prize: "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot," she told reporters outside her London home. "It's a royal flush."
That quote's in the Yahoo article too. I just didn't excerpt it. Though it's slightly different, and gives me the impression that she's being slightly sarcastic.
I think it's hysterical, personally. I mean, when you're 88, you can pretty much do what you want.
bon bon - Oct 11, 2007 10:20:46 am PDT #6165 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Yeah, I can't imagine getting excited about anything at 88.
ION, Gawker is cracking me up today. This guy is the douchbag of the decade but it doesn't quite bear mentioning unless you look at his website. This is epic, Jackie Massey Paisley Passey levels of douchery.
Emily - Oct 11, 2007 10:23:28 am PDT #6166 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
For some reason I seem to get Doris Lessing mixed up with the writer of some distressingly porny fantasy novel I read years ago.
Oh, right. She wrote The Fifth Child. God, what a freaky book.
ETA: Or, hell, maybe that is her after all.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2007 10:36:30 am PDT #6167 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I couldn't find that douche's age anywhere, so I'm afraid I went to college with him.
flea - Oct 11, 2007 10:42:30 am PDT #6168 of 10001
information libertarian
At least he's not roofie-ing women he meets on Match.com.
Also, he's UGLY. I mean, really?!?
Jesse - Oct 11, 2007 10:43:41 am PDT #6169 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, my mom's job has the best invention ever: It's All About You Day. It can be your birthday, but it doesn't have to be. An all-staff email goes out, so people are nice to you/congratulate you/whatever, and if you want, you can wear a tiara all day. Because it's All About You.
bon bon - Oct 11, 2007 10:45:02 am PDT #6170 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Also, he's UGLY. I mean, really?!?
Seriously, he doesn't have a single good picture. Not to mention the hair plugs.
-t - Oct 11, 2007 10:45:45 am PDT #6171 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's All About You Day is genius.
Briefing for a Descent into Hell is the title I couldn't remember.
hippocampus - Oct 11, 2007 10:47:28 am PDT #6172 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
At least he's not roofie-ing women he meets on Match.com.
right. there's (at least) one guy on trial for that right now - in two states. really frightening.