Comments on: Harold Pinter passes: the death of a great artist who hated us

By: TalkinKamel

TalkinKamel — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:38:04 +0000

Mike, haven’t read Mellencamp, but what’s so sophomoric about Lewis, Tolkien and Asimov? (Do you consider all science fiction “sophomoric” simply because it’s science fiction? All fantasy, just because it’s fantasy?)

Myself, I don’t think there’s anything on the planet more sophomoric than the endless stream of “Yuppie scum in love” novels churned out by supposedly serious writers (sometimes varied by “Rich yuppie scum in love in Manhattan” novels), or hating your own country, and/or worshipping bloodthirsty despots, or pushing Communism/socialism, despite the fact it’s never worked, and never will. Now THAT’S sophomoric! I’ll take elves, Narnia or voyages into space over that sort of dreck any day!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:31:58 +0000

Not to dispute that Pinter’s politics were pretty bad. But why is it that people on the right often seem to have such sophmoric literary/artistic taste? Asimov? Mellencamp? Tolkein and CS Lewis?

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By: scaramouche

scaramouche — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:24:59 +0000

I’d read your fellow PJ’er Roger Kimball on the subject. I think he nails it: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/12/27/unpleasant-thoughts-about-harold-pinter/

By: deguello

deguello — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:06:03 +0000

Another semi-talented “artist” and commie sympathizer, living a capitalist lifestyle,croaks.GOOD RIDDANCE!

By: piggle

piggle — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:42:58 +0000

Hating your own world is for an ‘artist’ a guaranteed way to create drama, which they feed off. Supporting terrible dictators and evil regimes generates controversy, which propels the ‘artist’ into higher adulation in the small circles in which they move.

Perhaps Pinter felt so inclined.

By: Dave Surls

Dave Surls — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:16:12 +0000

Pinter was the scum of the earth, and the world is a much better place now that he’s not in it.

He was also a talentless hack, and if ever you’ve had the misfortune to read his “poetry”, you’ll know what I mean.

By: ganderson

ganderson — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:05:38 +0000

It’s time to get out the episode of Seinfeld that was done backward-one of the characters was names ‘Pinter’

By: Mike_K

Mike_K — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:41:37 +0000

Roger, David Pryce-Jones seems to hold Pinter in lesser esteem than you do. At another dinner he praised Ayatollah Khomeini for his anti-Americanism, and again I responded, only to discover that he had never before heard the terms Shia and Sunni. He caught prejudices in the air as other people might catch colds, and he lacked the information with which to cure them.

By: Mikey NTH

Mikey NTH — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:51:35 +0000

If you hate your fellow humans, what kind of art can you produce? What is art without an audience but one person talking to himself? I would say that it is pretty one-dimensional at that point, a one-trick-pony.

N.B. – This is just musing on the post above, and not on the life and work of Harold Pinter per se.