NP? 2007 Nobel Prize Announcement

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I'm thrilled.  Anyone who hasn't read The Golden Notebook and the Children of Violence series is in for an amazing experience.  This isn't some p.c. "choose a woman" maneuver.  Lessing absolutely has the gravitas to be a Nobel Prize winner.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 11, 2007 9:26 AM
>To: Martin Hinks <mhinks at gmail.com>
>Cc: davemarc <davemarc at panix.com>, Pynchlist <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: NP? 2007 Nobel Prize Announcement
>
>On 10/11/07, Martin Hinks <mhinks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Bad luck (again) all.
>>
>> Doris Lessing.
>
>Yeah.  And if politics, and perhaps gender, are, uh, one thing(s),
>language (not to mnetion geography) is another.  All these
>writers-in-English over the past decade or so have me Worried ...
>
>Yeah, I know, maybe Beckett, Faulkner and Garcia Marquez (offa the top
>of my head) excepte, yr in better company WITHOUT one (and how'd they
>miss Tolstoy that first time around?  A year later, it was just TOO
>damn late), but ...