The Sun Between Their Feet by Doris Lessing

The Sun Between Their Feet by Doris LessingThe second volume of Doris Lessings Collected African Stories, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature."As for these stories when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse starts beating, and I recognise it: it is time I wrote another story from that landscape, external and internal at the same time, which was once the Old Chiefs

we escape by withdrawing from experiences and distracting ourselves with amusements

both djinni and apprentice are caught up in a terrifying flood of magical intrigue

unimaginable wealth

and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined

Lakshmi massages Vishnus feet

and discover his deep dark secret

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I haven't killed anybody for years

Nepal today is at a critical crossroad

the Gheranda Samhita speaks of a sevenfold yoga: Shatkarma for purification

I will hurt no one in my thoughts or in my actions

as Taleb shows in this book