Nobel Prize for Literature for Doris Lessing

CENTRAL INTAKE HOSPITAL
Admittance Sheet Friday, August 1gth, 1969

Name... Unknown
Sex... Male
Age... Unknow
Address.. Unknown
General Remarks
... At midnight the Police found Patient wandering an the Embankment near Waterloo Bridge. They took him into the station thinking he was drunk or drugged. They describe him as Rambling, Confused and Amenable. Brought him to us at g a.m. by ambulance. During admittance Patient attempted several times to lie down -on the desk. He seemed to think it was a boat or a raft. Police are checking ports, ships, etc. Patient was well-dressed but had not changed his clothes for some time. He did not seem very hungry or thirsty. He was wearing trousers and a sweater,$ but he had no papers or wallet or money or Marks of identity. Police think he was robbed. He is an educated man. He was given two Libriums but did not sleep. He was talking loudly. Patient was moved into the small Observation ward as he was disturbing the other Patients.
NIGHT NURSE 6 a.m.

These are the first lines of Doris Lessing's book Briefing for a Descent into Hell. Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literatur 2007 "honoring a life of writing" as the German Der Spiegel titled in his October 11 online edition. [more in clip.... and an interview with her] Probably her most famous novel is still considered to be The Golden Notebook. See also the Doris Lessing Reader. Gi