β Scribed by Diski, Jenny
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ...
I got a joke in.
'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,' I said to the Poet.
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_In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with clichΓ©. Being a writer, she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this), and also to tell a story she has not yet told: that of being taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship.
In September 2014 Jenny Diski began writing in the London Review of Books , describing her experience of living with terminal cancer, examining her life and history with Doris Lessing: the...
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