“ONCE upon a time, there was an old woman. Blind but wise.” Thus began Toni Morrison’s acceptance lecture for the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In the story, the old woman was met by a group of young people who wanted to test her wisdom, and to unveil her as a fraud.
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