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Well can outdo that I once met Andrew Burke -not sure if he bought me a pint though??next time maybe P -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of andrew burke Sent: 13 May 2008 06:55 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Doris Lessing I met Doris Lessing up in Singapore once. I was nervous: I expected an aggressive feminist with a fiercesome intellect and vocabulary to match. Instead, in walked this nice old lady, somewhat befuddled, carrying far too much. She had been to a school and then taken straight to our panel discussion at the World Book Fair (or somesuch title). When we met she was politely interested in where I came from, etc, but her main worry was her strangely shaped stutue, awarded by the school. (Wherever you talk in Asia, you are presented with some gift or other.) I saw the stutue had been assembled wrongly and started to disassemble it when the panel meeting began. We made a pact: I would fix the statue if she would talk to the audience by herself. It was a very pleasant meeting, although I didn't listen to a word she said, so intent was I in getting this abstract flame-style stutue to work. When she finished I had finished, so she was thrilled with her hideous plastic gift, mounted on highkly polished wood. She was a very nice person, and I only wish we had spent some time together when I wasn't so awed. Such are my brushings up against the celebrities of the world! Andrew 2008/5/13 M. Borges Accardi <[log in to unmask]>: > Thank you so much!? I'll check out the website. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:56 am > Subject: Re: Doris Lessing > > > > Well if I listen to it again, I'm hesitant about quoting extensively > from memory. > > But if you go to: > > www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ > > and look up today's edition of Night Waves (broadcast 19.15 hrs BST) > the interview is the first item in the broadcast, and available for > the next seven days. She's rather endearing. > > > > 2008/5/12 M. Borges Accardi <[log in to unmask]>: > > Could you post any more snippets from the interview? > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:30 am > > Subject: Doris Lessing > > > > > > > > Doris Lessing while being interviewed on BBC Radio 4's 'Night Waves' > just > now: > > > > INTERVIEWER: 'Has winning the Nobel Prize brought you happiness?' > > > > LESSING: 'It's been a bloody disaster'. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > David Bircumshaw > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk > > > > > > -- > David Bircumshaw > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1419 - Release Date: 07/05/2008 07:46