lessing is more

Jan 31, 2008— [Upon receiving her Nobel Prize—delayed because of health—Doris Lessing said] “There isn’t anywhere to go from here, is there—unless, like some exemplars, recent ones, I could get a pat on the head from the pope. ” ... She did not say whom she was referring to, although Tony Blair, who she described in a recent interview as “a disaster for Britain,” had talks with Pope Benedict XVI last year before his conversion to Catholicism.-- NYT A6