The memoirs of a survivor / Doris Lessing
| dc.contributor | Smith, John Bristow, 1940- Department of Computer Science Chapel Hill College Chapel Hill |
| dc.contributor.author | Lessing, Doris May, 1919- |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T15:54:39Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T15:54:39Z |
| dc.date.created | 1974 |
| dc.date.issued | 1976-01-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0089 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0089 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 402 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Use of this resource is restricted in some manner. Usually this means that it is available for non-commercial use only with prior permission of the depositor and on condition that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | The memoirs of a survivor / Doris Lessing |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 411628 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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We all remember that time . It was no different 003 for me than for others . Yet we do tell each other over and over again the particularities of the events we shared , and the repetition , the listening , is as if we are saying , " It was like that for you , too ? Then that confirms it , yes , it was so , it must have been , I wasn't imagining things . " We match or dispute like people who have seen remarkable creatures on a journey : " Did you see that big blue fish ? Oh , the one you saw was yellow ] " But the sea we travelled over was the same , the protracted period of unease and tension before the end was the same for everybody , everywhere ; in the smaller units of our cities -- streets , a cluster of tall blocks of flats , a hotel -- as in cities , nations , a continent . . . . Yes , I agree that this is pretty highflown imagery considering the nature of the events in question : bizarre fish , oceans , and so forth . But perhaps it wouldn't be o . . .
