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| November 21, 2005 | Horne, Alistair | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Congratulations on David Pryce-Jones's assessment of the ridiculous Harold Pinter (Nov. 7). Those Swedes must have finally lost their marbles. Is there really no other writer in the world worth a Nobel?

Apart from his pointless poetry and bad dramas, Pinter is as--Pryce-Jones suggests--a thoroughly odious human being: Even having married into one of our most distinguished and charming families seems to have failed to housetrain him.

A few years back, after he had affronted my wile, 1 called him a Rottweiler--"You talk a lot of rot and no one has viler ...

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