Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter by Doris Lessing

Author:Doris Lessing [Lessing, Doris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

Griot achieved his army, his Red Blanket army, about halfway through Dann's long absence – while he was expecting Dann to turn up every day.

Now, watching the two men at the companion table, so busy, so absorbed, Griot knew that he was ignorant, and did not even know what he was ignorant of: he was continually being surprised by randomly, accidentally dropped bits of information.

He had understood that in his army – his lovely Red Blanket army – were people who were learned: some had been powerful – like Ali, so Sabir said. Talk of the 'sand libraries' among some of the soldiers was as easy and commonplace as talk of rations or the eternal cold mists. Sabir and Ali were not from the same country, but from adjacent countries, far to the east; 'sand-eaters' was the camp nickname for them, and they told him that the countries of eternal sand were where 'everyone' knew, 'had always known' of the sand libraries of North Ifrik, where there had been no sand for – who knew? Thousands of years would do.

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