Doris Lessing had been in the running for the Nobel Prize for something like thirty years or more. If I had been in the running for such a prize, for such a period of time, and they finally granted me one at the age of 88, I'd probably tell Stockholm to piss off.
Jim F.
-- (Chuck Grimes) <cgrimes at rawbw.COM> wrote: Today, the press greeted Golden Notebook author Doris Lessing as she arrived at her home in a taxi. In the clip above, they tell her she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and her response is, "Oh Christ. I couldn't care less."
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That's the stuff isn't it? Never read her, but I loved her just on that. I watched the clip on the BBC and PBS. Exactly the right thing to say.
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