Saturday, December 27, 2008
Harold Pinter, 1930-2008
With thanks to Stephen Kobasa, for sending the following:
Another prophet and poet dead, but we still have the voice. The passage below is the conclusion to Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech:
When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror - for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.
I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man.
Another prophet and poet dead, but we still have the voice. The passage below is the conclusion to Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech:
When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror - for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.
I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man.
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Dear Sarah, Thank you for the appreciation of Harold Pinter, a great artist and activist. Due to a technical error at work, I've lost your Dad's email address! I contacted him about the possibility of reprinting his Flannery O'Connor book. I have a functional email address: drobillard@netscape.com
Best,
Douglas Robillard
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Best,
Douglas Robillard
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