re: This is why it's on Flame.
Yeah, Mary Anne. Right. I've never read any writer or seen any films or any plays written by anyone who opposes the war in Iraq--as though I check first. And a museum piece made from chickenwire and cowshit I saw on display once is as good as anything I saw in the Louvre.
Why can't you get your head around the simple idea that Harold Pinter, whatever else you might say about him, is not in the same class as Hemingway or Steinbeck, or Solzhenitsyn?
One member of the Nobel committee has resigned in protest for last year's winner. Two resigned in 1989 when the Nobel committee refused to condemn the Islamist death sentence on Salman Rushdie.