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Contemporary Women's Writing 2007 1(1-2):171-184; doi:10.1093/cww/vpm008
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Reproduction, Genetics, and Eugenics in the Fiction of Doris Lessing

Clare Hanson

University of Southampton, UK c.hanson@soton.ac.uk

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In the second volume of her autobiography, Walking in the Shade, Doris Lessing offers an account of this incident which happened when she was staying with the novelist Naomi Mitchison:

Naomi asked me to take a certain inarticulate young scientist for a walk. "And for goodness’ sake, get him to say something – his tongue will atrophy." His name was James Watson. For about three hours we walked about over the hills and through the heather, while I chatted away, my mother's daughter: one should know how to put people at their ease. At the end of it, exhausted, wanting only to escape, I at last heard human speech. "The trouble is, you see, that there is only one other person in the world I can talk to." I reported this to Naomi, and we agreed that it was as dandified a remark as we could remember, even from . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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