On 14-Oct-05, at 9:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<x-tad-bigger>The newest Nobel laureate in literature has fulminated against what he sees as the overweening arrogance of American power, and belittled Prime Minister Tony Blair as seeming like a ``deluded idiot'' in support of President Bush's war in Iraq.</x-tad-bigger>hj: Thanks for posting this. But why in private? Maybe you're unsubscribed. You must realize I'd be outing you
<x-tad-bigger>He once compared his view of America with his personal nightmare of fighting cancer.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>``I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world,'' Pinter said in 2002 when he accepted an honorary doctorate at Turin University in Italy.</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger>Pinter's indignation reached a peak in his poem ``American Football,'' an obscenity-smeared diatribe satirizing the kick-some-butt style of American military power.</x-tad-bigger>
because I feel our perspective on the world we live in needs to be part of our language. This is, above all, where
I severely criticize those who carefully avoid that kind of talk, implying that they are too pure to be polluting their
minds with the quotidian. Too bad, they miss so much fun in not being able to laugh at themselves.
