"everyday prattle"

[John Carvill]

Yeah, Pinter uses 'killing Serbian children' to pull heart-strings and grind his inexplicable axe over Kosovo.

He may be right about Bush, Blair, Iraq, etc. (I agree with his views on those), but his support for Milosevic makes Pinter an idiot too.





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Otto
Sent: 13 October 2005 15:49
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: "everyday prattle"

The War against Reason, by Harold Pinter:
There's an old story about Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the Irish 
town of Drogheda the citizens were brought to the main square. Cromwell 
announced to his lieutenants: "Right! Kill all the women and rape all 
the men." One of his aides said: "Excuse me, general. Isn't it the other 
way around?" A voice from the crowd called out: "Mr Cromwell knows what 
he's doing." That voice is the voice of Tony Blair -- "Mr Bush knows 
what he's doing."
(...)
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/natarch/x-pinter-dec2002.html


Michael J. Hußmann wrote:

>John Carvill (JCarvill at algsoftware.com) wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Great. Give the prize to a member of the INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO
>>DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC.
>>    
>>
>
>While I despise Slobodan Milosevic as much as everyone else, Pinter was
>awarded the Nobel price in LITERATURE; it's not the peace price.
>
>
>Michael J. Hußmann
>


	

	
		
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