DORIS LESSING IS A WRITER UNDER THE SPELL OF COLONIAL SUPEREGO AND ENTERTAINS NO NEW WORLD NOR ITS REALITY: NO RALPH, NOR FANON, NOR GARVEY'S WISH BUT HER 'PEOPLE'S COLONIAL WISH. BY MERE FACT THAT SHE WAS GIVEN A NOBEL PRIZE, FOR WRITING HER APOLOGETIC STAFF SPEAKS VOLUME OF WHAT SHE REPRESENTS: THE 'DEMOCRATIC' DISPOSSESSION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. IN NUTSHELL THAT IS THE LESSINGIAN'S PATHETIC DREAM.
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Is a society that doesn't read a dangerous place?
I think so. For one thing it makes people very ignorant. You see, when it comes to people of my age, if you talk to someone who has had anything like the same experience, reading and so on, and contrast that with talking to a young person who hasn't, it's like talking to a different kind of creature. You talk to someone with your kind of experience, and you share a language and references, you talk in a completely different way--and I don't mean that you are using more advanced language. This human need to think and understand, which has in the past been feed by books, literature and learning, it will prevail. At the moment though I can't foresee which form it will come out in.
But it will come out?
Yes it will.
Is this really your last book?
Well, I don't have any energy. You know people tend to start laughing when I say that. I've had to do an awful lot of interviews and things when I won the Nobel. It takes up so much time and effort and energy. People will soon lose interest in me from that point of view. You see, you haven't reached that stage when your energy becomes a bit dicey. Mine is very narrow, so we will have to see. At the moment I don't write at all.
And do you miss it?
Well, I have some nice ideas I wouldn't mind writing, but God knows when.
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