Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog by Doris Lessing

Author:Doris Lessing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

The answers to that were like stabs of light in the dark of Griot’s mind. He had scribes from the camp, chosen by Sabir and Ali, to write down these answers and pile up the tablets or reed sheets—for when Dann came.

But Dann didn’t come.

Griot was feeding more and more, housing them, clothing them, creating the fisheries down at the Bottom Sea, the farms, the looms where fleeces were made into cloth for tunics and trousers. It was only the red blankets that united so many people—hundreds now.

Why did they submit to him, to Griot? he secretly wondered. Why should they? Some were so much cleverer and some really learned, and who was he? Who was Griot, a man without a country, a man who sat at his table in the great hall and called a rabble an army.

Griot made his plans, thought his thoughts, watched the two men from the countries of sand at their nearby table, in the great hall where the high windows or apertures let in patterns of sunlight when there was sun and where sometimes birds flew across high above, and one even made a nest among the coloured tiles. Tiles that no one knew how to make now, and Ali said the art wasn’t known in his country either…Ali, how often things did come back to Ali…the little brown man, who did not smile much. He had lost all his children and, he thought, his wife, too, in the war he had fled from.

Ali, always there to answer the questions that Griot had to ask, because he knew himself to be so ignorant. But it was all right, Dann would come and then…

Dann didn’t come. And he did not send a message.

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