Doris Lessing is Nonplussed

Man, I do love it when a Brit wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Back in 2005, during his pre-recorded Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a very ill Harold Pinter hit us full in the face with his anger. He doesn't much care for lying, and he shared his thoughts on lying with the power of his fully-operational battle station:

...the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed...

It got even better as he went on, giving the U.S. of A. a rather stern talking to. Apparently, he thinks our nation is a bunch of fucking liars. I'll stop discussing and give you an opportunity to watch the video yourself.

The fine people of the Nobel committee in venerable Stockholm took a break from the literary Brits for 2006 winner Orhan Pamuk but returned this week to name Doris Lessing the 2007 winner.

Doris was apparently quite surprised to see the paparazzi at her home, as she lugged her bags of groceries out of her taxi. Now 88 years old, when the reporters told her she won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris had quite a response:

Oh, Christ. I couldn't care less. I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot, OK? It's a royal flush."

She said that since the Nobel folks have to award a writer who's still alive, they probably figured this was their last chance to give it to her before she "popped off." She's also already resenting all the scalawags who will be begging her for a piece of the $1.5 million prize, although she does admit that if her works are read by a larger audience, it would be "very nice."

I just hope those readers stay off of her lawn and keep their goddamn music down.