Here on Shikasta we're still muddling along

Now here's a refreshing surprise. For the first time in my memory, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is not only someone I've heard of, but someone I've actually read: Doris Lessing. Who, kind of like Ursula K. LeGuin, sometimes writes very accessible and insightful things, and sometimes writes like a hyperintelligent space alien reporting insightful observations back to home base. Fabulous when it isn't baffling.