Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/06/doris-lessing-golden-notebook-reading/

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Ist die Lektüre der Bücher von #DorisLessing tatsächlich derart rettungslos outdated? Ich habe mich in den diversen Online-Antiquariaten umgesehen und finde dort ihre Bücher zu Schleuderpreisen. Ihr "Goldenes Notizbuch" ist schon zwischen einem bis fünf Euro (sic!) zu haben. Immerhin ist die Frau Nobelpreisträgerin (2007)!

Oder will von den Lieblingsbüchern meiner Generation einfach niemand mehr etwas wissen, genauso wie von uns selbst (Boomer-Bashing inklusive)?

Colección de citas literarias. CXVI

Soy un técnico, pero tengo técnica sólo dentro de la técnica.
Fuera de eso soy loco, con todo el derecho a serlo.
Con todo el derecho a serlo, ¿oyeron?

Fernando Pessoa

Lo más fácil, entre nosotros, será morir; un poco menos fácil, soñar; difícil, rebelarse; dificilísimo, amar.

Carlos Fuentes.

Las personas amantes de la literatura tienen partes de sus mentes inmunes al adoctrinamiento. Si lees, puedes aprender a pensar por ti mismo.

 Doris Lessing

Cuando te mueres, no sabes que estás muerto, no sufres por ello, pero es duro para el resto. Lo mismo pasa cuando eres imbécil.

Albert Einstein

“A veces resulta difícil ver algo bueno o esperanzador en un mundo que cada vez parece más horroroso. Basta con oír las noticias para que una piense que está viviendo en un manicomio”.

#DorisLessing en uno de los ensayos de “Las cárceles que elegimos”.

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/08/30/cuadernos-doris-lessing/

Sipping a word like brandy

In Doris Lessing’s story ‘A Road to the Big City’, published in her 1957 collection The Habit of Loving (my Penguin paperback edition, pictured, is from 1960), two young women, sisters, are travelling by train in Johannesburg.

Marie, the younger, and Lilla sit at a table with a middle-aged man and allow him to buy them drinks. Lilla, who considers her sister unworldly, chooses brandy for them both. It’s Marie’s first time drinking it.

The three get to talking about their plans and backgrounds:

‘Mom is old-fashioned,’ said Marie. She said the word old-fashioned carefully; it was not hers, but Lilla’s; she was tasting it, in the way she sipped at the brandy, trying it out, determined to like it.

It’s common knowledge that we can eat our words (they’re tasty!). It’s less well known that we can drink them too, sampling their flavour on our tongue, testing their effect on our sense of self.

Do you remember trying out a word like this for the first time, wanting to make it your own? What word will you be sipping like brandy today?

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Today's reading: short stories by Doris Lessing

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"Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

~ Doris Lessing

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