Jack: So …. [pause]
Jack: So he won then. [pause]
Jill: Yes.
Jack: Yes. [longer pause]
Jack: He waited long enough.
Jill: Yes.
Jack: Yes … he did. [pause]
Jill: Yes, he certainly waited long enough.
Jack: Words. [pause]
Jill: What?
Jack: Words, in conversion, he was good at that. [pause]
Jill: Yes … he waited long enough.
Jack: I think… [pause]
Jill: …and pauses, he was good at that too.
Jack: Yes.
Jill: Yes. [pause]
Jack: Yes. [pause] I think his word/time ratio was the smallest ever heard.
Jill: Yes.
Jack: Yes. [pause]
Jill: Yes, he waited long enough…
Jack: Well done, that’s what they say…
Jill: Yes, they do say that…
Jack: Well done, like the toast… [long pause]… How’s your cornflakes, then?
… and so on..
John Grady, Wokingham, Berks,UK —Pinter wins Nobel literary prize (BBC)
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