Gamma Ray
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Greetings, my fantastic community! Let's develop together an interesting thread!
We can learn English and expand our vocabulary by reading interesting speeches by Nobel Laureates. We can dilate our comprehension, our knowledge, our wisdom by reading speeches of winners of Nobel Prize. We can search for new ideas in speeches. Laureate is a winner in case you're not familiar with a word.
Primary ideas of this thread:
1. Expansion and dilatation of our knowledge. Knowing who is a winner, what he had created, how he/she was inspired.
2. Improving our comprehension of language in process of reading.
Take into consideration before post here:
1. Add only Nobel Prize Winners and their speeches.
2. Needless to post whole speech. Add a passage from a speech that you personally like and want to share with us.
3. Mention who is author of the speech, year and in what category laureate won.
4. Use quotes brackets for respect of the author of a speech.
The very first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to the French poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme, who in his poetry showed the "rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect". Over the years, the Nobel Prize in Literature has distinguished the works of authors from many different languages and cultural backgrounds. The Literature Prize has been awarded to unknown masters as well as authors acclaimed worldwide.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy.
I would like to start the thread by posting a passage from speech by writer and dramatist Harold Pinter.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005
Harold Pinter
We can learn English and expand our vocabulary by reading interesting speeches by Nobel Laureates. We can dilate our comprehension, our knowledge, our wisdom by reading speeches of winners of Nobel Prize. We can search for new ideas in speeches. Laureate is a winner in case you're not familiar with a word.
Primary ideas of this thread:
1. Expansion and dilatation of our knowledge. Knowing who is a winner, what he had created, how he/she was inspired.
2. Improving our comprehension of language in process of reading.
Take into consideration before post here:
1. Add only Nobel Prize Winners and their speeches.
2. Needless to post whole speech. Add a passage from a speech that you personally like and want to share with us.
3. Mention who is author of the speech, year and in what category laureate won.
4. Use quotes brackets for respect of the author of a speech.
The very first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to the French poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme, who in his poetry showed the "rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect". Over the years, the Nobel Prize in Literature has distinguished the works of authors from many different languages and cultural backgrounds. The Literature Prize has been awarded to unknown masters as well as authors acclaimed worldwide.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy.
I would like to start the thread by posting a passage from speech by writer and dramatist Harold Pinter.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005
Harold Pinter
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task. More often than not you stumble upon the truth in the dark, colliding with it or just glimpsing an image or a shape which seems to correspond to the truth, often without realising that you have done so. But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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