Harold Pinter acknowledgement speech

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Let's take his own words and apply them to his speech.

And still Occhi, I don't understand your way of thinking. Like always, the "the europeans misbehaved before us, so we are also allowed now-theme" is one of your important arguments again.
Why don't you just try not to see everything as a europe against USA problem. Mister pinter did not blame you he blamed american governmenst for some bad things that happened. He could of course have written his speech about the kolonialism of the britisch, belgians, and french in afrika. The slave transports from afrika to the US conducted by the dutch, or hitler concentration camps....but what would be the point. At this moment in time there is a government that does nbot play by the rules, so it shoudl be that government that is critisized.

Bad people are everywhere and have always been there. Blaming an entire people for the mistakes of one man is not correct...but he does not do that.

I think you should start thinking more in a "bad things versus good things" way instead of a "I have to defend George Bush way".

We discussed this point very often; because I don't like your government does not mean that I don't like you.


Something else; no writer can ever be greater than his best book....I don't see a point in a Nobel prize for literature.