[I probably shouldn't post a draft like this without proofing and revision, but I am bone-weary and managed to fat-finger away a dozen hours of work that I have to make up before Friday... so I know I won't come back to it. Caveat emptor.]
Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech has predictably ruffled some bloggers’ feathers. I posted the offending tidbit to my blog yesterday knowing it was a provocative lead. What surprised me was that so few appear to have looked at the rest of what Lessing said (I posted one important snippet to my Commonplace Book), much of which is spot-on. In fact, I’m not even sure she’s wrong when talking about the Internet and Television.
But let me dispose of one canard first. A number of people have pointed out the “irony” that, were it not for blogs and the Internet, they never would have seen Lessing’s speech. That’s wrong thinking on two levels. Read the rest of this entry »