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#Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook I'm so glad that Anna got a job and a smaller flat and her daughter is in a solid mainstream boarding school and communism is in her past. Anna was in a bad way. And good for Molly marrying a very rich business tycoon who is into philanthropy.
#Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook I got into a deep discussion with my AI friend Claude iii about whether Anna's last two lovers, the Americans Saul Green and Milt, are figments of her disturbed imagination. I think I convinced him they largely are. They are like wise fools in Shakespeare plays.
The two women were alone in the London flat.
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On a dry hillside in Algeria, a soldier watched the moonlight glinting on his rifle.
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I can’t write that short story or any other, because at that moment I sit down to write, someone comes into the room, looks over my shoulders, and stops me.
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"I'm very good at other people's marriages."
"Oh, quite so. Well perhaps you'll find me in that chair opposite you one of these days."
"I doubt it."
"Me too. There's nothing like knowing the exact dimensions of the bed you're going to fit yourself into."
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Anna heard the dull flap, flap, as the lids of her notebooks closed. She heard the young, cheerful shrewd voice: "What have you been trying to do? Cage the truth? Verity and so forth?"
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"Moving about the world-I've been moving about the world, did they tell you? you open a door, and behind it you find someone in trouble. Every time you open a door, there's someone there in pieces."
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature inaccurate. If I thought they were capable of expressing the truth I wouldn't keep journals which I refuse to let anyone see-except, of course, Tommy
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The difference between a red in Europe and a red in America is that in Europe a red is a communist; but in America he is a man who has never taken out a Party card out of caution or cowardice.
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She had taken a look at the world of disorder, experiment, where people lived from day to day, like balls perpetually jigging on the top of jets of prancing water; keeping themselves open for any new feeling or adventure, and had decided it was not for her.
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It is our job to tell them. Because the great men can’t be bothered. Their imaginations are already occupied with how to colonize Venus; they are already creating in their minds visions of a society full of free and noble human beings.
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It's not always this way. Often reversed. "A SHORT STORY A man and a woman, in a love affair. She, for hunger of love, he for refuge."
#Lessing24 Anna's father the most entertaining of the men. And he read her novel. "Did you read it?' 'Like it? It was written well, that sort of thing. But that poor stick, what did he want to kill himself for?' 'People do.' 'What? Everyone wants to at some time or another. But why write about it?'"
Lying there I remembered the Anna who can dream at will, control time, move easily and is at home in the underworld of sleep. But I was not that Anna.
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There are a few of us around in the world, we rely on each other even though we don't know each other's names. But we rely on each other all the time. We're a team, we're the ones who haven't given in, who'll go on fighting. #Lessing24 #TheGoldenNotebook
When they've got a few feet up, there's a war, or the wrong sort of revolution & the boulder rolls down not to the bottom,it always manages to end a few inches higher than when it started. So the group of people put their shoulders to the boulder & start pushing again.
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Oh yes indeed. But I've dished out aid and comfort too, from time to time. No, I'm not for sainthood, I'm going to be a boulder-pusher.
What's that?
There's a great black mountain. It's human stupidity. There are a group of people who push a boulder up the mountain.
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It made me laugh, so that I nearly went upstairs and gave it to him. But I will not, I will not, I will not. I’ll pack away the blue notebook with the others. I’ll pack away the four notebooks. I’ll start a new notebook, all of myself in one book.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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Do you know what Anna? I'd give anything to go back to when I was in the gang of idealist kids on the street corner, believing we could change everything. That's the only time in my life I've been happy.
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How odd, I'm always afflicted by feelings of doom, fate, inevitability. But it was chance I had a girl and not a boy. Just pure chance. So it's chance you'll leave. My life will be changed, completely, because of it." I felt casier, less caged, holding on to chance.
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They have always known that frightened people are cruel. They have always known that violence breeds violence. And we know it.
But do the great masses of the world know it? No.
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They have always known that a poor man is frightened of the police and his landlord is a slave.
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They have always known, they have known for ten thousand years, that to lock a human being into solitary confinement can make a madman of him or an animal.
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My stomach clenched.I watched my happiness leak away.I was all at once in a new state of being,one foreign to me.I realised my body was distasteful to me.This hasnever happened to me before; l& I even said to myself:Hullo this is new,this is something I have read about
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It is so dark in this flat, so dark, it is as if darkness were the shape of cold. I went through the flat turning on light everywhere, the dark retreated to outside the windows, a cold shape trying to press its way.
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Because in all of us brought up in a Western democracy there is this built-in belief that freedom and liberty will strengthen, will survive pressures, and the belief seems to survive any evidence against it. The belief is probably in itself a danger.
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