{"id":531,"date":"2007-10-13T18:44:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T02:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/10\/13\/doris-lessing-and-the-nobel-prize\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T02:44:31","slug":"doris-lessing-and-the-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/doris-lessing-and-the-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Doris Lessing and The Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"doris-lessing.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/doris-lessing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image530\" height=\"96\" alt=\"doris-lessing.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/doris-lessing.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When reporters outside her house told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/11\/AR2007101101157.html\" target=\"_blank\">Doris Lessing<\/a> that she\u2019d won the Nobel Prize for literature, her response was: \u201cOh Christ!\u2026.I couldn\u2019t care less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What a fabulous woman. At 88, Doris Lessing is working on a novel about her parents and World War I. She is utterly straight-forward, cranky, brilliant, restless, and unrepentant. I fucking love her.<\/p>\n<p>Doris Lessing left school at 14, and stopped going to church when she learned about the Inquisition. Whenever I think of Doris Lessing, I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_David_Laing\" target=\"_blank\">R. D. Laing<\/a>, who lived with her for a while in North London, just blocks from where I landed as a fifteen year old expatriate from California.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t read any R.D. Laing, now is a good time to start. He was a radical psychiatrist who questioned the definition of sanity and ran a place called Kingsley Hall, where staff and patients traded roles.<\/p>\n<p>Laing introduced Doris Lessing to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sufism\" target=\"_blank\">Sufism<\/a>, which I don\u2019t know anything about. It <a href=\"http:\/\/godlas.myweb.uga.edu\/Sufism.html\" target=\"_blank\">seems<\/a> like a crock of shit, but if it\u2019s good enough for Doris Lessing, it\u2019s good enough for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reporters outside her house told Doris Lessing that she\u2019d won the Nobel Prize for literature, her response was: \u201cOh Christ!\u2026.I couldn\u2019t care less.\u201d What a fabulous woman. At 88, Doris Lessing is working on a novel about her parents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/doris-lessing-and-the-nobel-prize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,8,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-8z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}