Sometimes I get an idea and I just go wild...searching, digging, hunting, chewing, waging my tail, licking my chops, (I think you get my drift); so....the other day I came across The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing ...went to Powell's to see it; ordered from the library for home delivery, tonight reading all that I can get on the Internet about the authors life...I guess I am searching to know the truth, her truth, my truth, my vision, my quest, my adventure,...my mother was a reader so when I came across this quote by Ms. Lessing when she was interviewed for her last book it prompted me to write in my little earthly blog o sphere...The question was:
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". (Lessing, from the Internet, obtained today by cg)
She is a practical person and has spunk! So I am looking forward to getting The Golden Notebook--it is over 600 pages long so we will see if I have the determination to finish it; but you know when you are over 60 you can decide not to finish a book by whomever! If you see a picture of her now she reminds me of the photos of Jane Addams of the Hull House in Chicago.
So, I am fixated right now on reading more and more....good nite...it is just darn cold!
PS..the photo is the dog Lincoln had while he was president---named Fido, so I wonder if Obama is going to have a similiar one...for the girls of course...
