DORIS LESSING
408
some incomprehensible, alien force has suddenly arisen in our
country, and yet it has to be assimilated, accommodated, made
part of our culture. I
am
sure we will do it. When the hysteria has
died down. Sometimes it seems as if the whole phenomenon is on
some wavelength of unreason, irrationality, that attracts and
inflames the like: which does not make it easier to write this let–
ter....
Yours,
Doris
Lessing
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