andamu

The other night Nini came up with a variation of the "Desert Island Disc" game over a meal in a restaurant. I still don't quite know what the object of the game was, but the questions were about the things you can take along if you were to be stranded indefinitely:

• One type of fruit
  
• One type of cuisine (no, I don't understand that one either in the context)
  
• ...
  
• One recording artist
  
• One author
  

I found all of the questions rather difficult to answer, except for the author which came to me after only a little bit of thinking: Iris Murdoch, of course.

Yes, several reasons, thank you for asking.

1. She wrote a lot of books, including straight philosophy, most of which I have not read yet
   
2. She writes well (which helps if you're stuck with only one author...)
   
3. Her books are so richly layered that it is possible to engage them on so many different levels that it would take months before one could even begin to feel that one has a thorough grip on the book entirely.
   

(Of course, ask me in six months and I might give you a different answer entirely :-) )