{"id":296,"date":"2022-04-03T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/tom-stoppard-information-is-light\/"},"modified":"2022-04-03T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:21:40","slug":"tom-stoppard-information-is-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memora8ilia.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/tom-stoppard-information-is-light\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2013\/oct\/11\/tom-stoppard-pen-pinter-lecture&quot;,&quot;display_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2013\/oct\/11\/tom-stoppard-pen-pinter-lecture&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Tom Stoppard: Information is light&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Tom Stoppard shares this year's PEN\/Pinter prize with Belarusian reporter Iryna Khalip. He describes his 'charmed' life in Britain and his f&quot;,&quot;site_name&quot;:&quot;the Guardian&quot;,&quot;poster&quot;:[{&quot;media_key&quot;:&quot;0e323ac53f1a2243c96cb93a8f71a2dc:beb4c0b497b5606f-e9&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;height&quot;:630}]}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2013\/oct\/11\/tom-stoppard-pen-pinter-lecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Stoppard: Information is light<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p> \u275d Half the point I want to make is that I have had a charmed life. I was whisked out of the way of the Nazis, bundled out of the way of the Japanese army, and, after a safe and happy four years in India, found myself in England instead of returning to Czechoslovakia in good time to grow up under communism. But I haven\u2019t made my point even yet. I\u00a0wasn\u2019t merely safe, I was in the land of tolerance, fair play and autonomous liberty, of habeas corpus, of the mother of parliaments, of freedom of speech, worship and assembly, of the English language. I didn\u2019t make this list when I was eight, but by 18 I would have added the best and freest newspapers, forged in the crucible of modern liberty, and the best theatre. When I was 19 there occurred the Hungarian revolution, and my first interest was in how the story was being covered. On my 23rd birthday I panicked because I\u2019d written nothing except journalism, and wrote a derivative play. When I was 31, Russian tanks rolled into Prague, and my wife got angry with me because I was acting English and not Czech. She was right. I\u00a0didn\u2019t feel Czech. I had no memory of\u00a0Czechoslovakia. I condemned the invasion from the viewpoint of everything I had inherited at the age of\u00a0eight, including my name. During all that time, I had never been without a bed, or clothes to put on, or food on the table, or without medicine when I was sick, or a school desk to sit at. As I grew up I never had to put on a uniform except as a boy scout. As a journalist and writer I had never been censored or told what to write. As a citizen I never had to fear the knock at the door. The second half of the point I want to make is that <b>if politics is not about giving everybody a life as charmed as mine, it\u2019s not about anything much<\/b>. \u275e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Stoppard: Information is light \u275d Half the point I want to make is that I have had a charmed life. 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