Lessing's More....

[jgmacg]

If you've ever wondered why we write, or why people read, Doris Lessing's Nobel lecture suggests some profoundly moving answers.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-lecture_en.html

The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise ... but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us – for good and for ill. It is our stories, the storyteller, that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, what we are at our best, when we are our most creative.

 

[BujuBanton]

interesting

 

[Damaramu]

I thought the only reason people read prep stories was to see their kids name in print.