I am for a few days break in Bristol visiting a friend. To me, Bristol is strictly connected to Harold Pinter. This is because I was first introduced to him by my friend. Every time I visit I will go through very quickly the same play, No Man's Land. I will not allow to myself more than 15 minutes to do that. Like a shot. This time this my favourite passage.
Spooner has just had his first drink of vodka (many more drinks follow in the play) and he introduces himself to Hirst and the reader.
Spooner has just had his first drink of vodka (many more drinks follow in the play) and he introduces himself to Hirst and the reader.
''Spooner:
Yes, I was about to say, you see, that there are some people who appear to be strong, whose idea of what strength consists of is persuasive, but who inhabit the idea and not the fact.
What they possess is not strength but expertise. They have nurtured and maintain what is in fact a calculated posture.
Half the time it works. It takes a man of intelligence and perception to stick a needle through that posture and discern the essential flabbiness of the stance.
I am such a man.''
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