Friday, November 9, 2007

1.) Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. I have never read any of her writings, but the name comes up.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, 'Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more.' Do they really want people to make oversimplified statements about men and women? In fact, they do. I've come with great regret to this conclusion.

I don't know what to make of "because it comes from religion".

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing#Literary_style

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2.) http://www.geocities.com/ehensby/Doc1.doc
A strange way to do it, but open this with Microsoft Word...a page (or part thereof) from a book (p.60) called No Direction Home on Bob Dylan. I've never read it, but look at the quotes on this page! This is from (I believe) 1966. (Jarrad, you might recognize one from the Moka House...here's the context!)

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. - Bob Dylan.




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