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Doris Lessing

The Grandmothers

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  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    This new woman, Raned, has achieved what every Barbarian girl wants, marriage with a citizen, and, in her case, into the leading family. If my grandson had not been such a poor type of fellow he would have aimed higher, perhaps at one of DeRod’s descendants.
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    understood. It was such a blow to my sense of probability: Bora believed–they all believed–that DeRod was the originator of wonderful accomplishments.
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    Again he seemed to be working something out. ‘But Father, everyone admires DeRod. When we had the Feast of Praise for him all the armies were singing about the new garden and the new silos too.’
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    This was because when we did talk I always felt I was knocking on a locked door.
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    It was some time since we had talked. Years, I think.
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    always hoping for him to say something.
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    Bora had never mentioned the Fall, the pool, the silos, the gardens–nothing of the things we had done, and I am sure I was
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    This was the moment of evident, apparently irreversible, change, when DeRod decided to build his wall.
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    These new people had no skills for agriculture, and it was hard to teach them, because our old ways of teaching by tales and songs and narrative poems were be
  • tabeavandeykhar citeratför 7 år sedan
    for by now we were unwilling to face him ourselves, for he had assumed such an intensity of arbitrary destructiveness for us. Never before had we faced a situation where we could not carry out a plan for lack of labour.
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