tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post114915130751660952..comments2024-02-18T19:36:43.844+11:00Comments on theatre notes: Handke againAlison Croggonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1149202262926377282006-06-02T08:51:00.000+10:002006-06-02T08:51:00.000+10:00Maybe. The problem is that the Handke problem is c...Maybe. The problem is that the Handke problem is complex: Handke has said things like the Serbs have suffered more than the Jews, which is an openly offensive, one might say idiotic, statement. And yet he is right in claiming, too, that he has been misquoted. <BR/><BR/>What bothers me here is that a literary prize is so openly being withdrawn as punishment for a writer's political beliefs. Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1149192097282647982006-06-02T06:01:00.000+10:002006-06-02T06:01:00.000+10:00My god that is so scary and apphauling.Woody Allen...My god that is so scary and apphauling.<BR/><BR/>Woody Allen is still making movies, isnt he ?DLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971226704327883196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1149184359972535312006-06-02T03:52:00.000+10:002006-06-02T03:52:00.000+10:00I should have been clearer. Its not so much just t...I should have been clearer. Its not so much just this site or this country attempting the protest but this site being one of the links (you link to quite a diverse bunch) in a much larger chain. This whole controversy afterall seems to have had its origins in a few lines written in a very flip manner by a french journalist. Perhaps if the right thinking constituency in whose name Handke has Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1149170833618852392006-06-02T00:07:00.000+10:002006-06-02T00:07:00.000+10:00Well, a protest letter from Australia might have a...Well, a protest letter from Australia might have a certain novelty value in Dusseldorf, if nothing else. I'll give some consideration to it, and would be interested to hear any other thoughts. Me, I'm off olive picking this weekend...Alison Croggonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202906.post-1149161225987800632006-06-01T21:27:00.000+10:002006-06-01T21:27:00.000+10:00Alison, the Handke saga is an extraordinary one. I...Alison, the Handke saga is an extraordinary one. I remember when our own cuddlesome Cardinal attempted to sue Sarano (or boot splasher as he was qickly rechristened) for his Piss Christ. It was one of those times (of which shamefully I have many) when I sort of let the argument drift. Yes I’m all for freedom of speech but I’m not going to the barricades for what I thought to be a lame piece of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com