By Claudia Park '13
I just returned from attending the reception in the Chancellor Greene Rotunda honoring Professor Mario Vargas Llosa, this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. I am still fighting an overwhelming sense of wooziness from having just observed history in the making. As I stood listening intently to Professor Llosa’s words, I could only marvel at how beneath his humble, sophisticated demeanor, there exists this remarkable internal landscape of profound wisdom, astute intelligence, and unbounded passion. Professor Llosa is the embodiment of an individual who dares to exercise the freedom to think independently and to follow the pathway paved by his ideas, as evidenced in his writings on freedom and his decision to run for the Peruvian presidency in 1990. In witnessing Llosa speak of the importance to read with a voracious appetite, I was moved by the profound power of ideas. Llosa described reading as one of the greatest pleasures life affords us. To carry on the message, propitiously in time for midterms but also for life: read on, tigers, read on!
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if he hadnt won the prize, i doubt you would know who he is. get over yourself. such a sheep!
I, the nobel peace price winner, wish to denounce the price, and wish Norwegian government to withdraw its price imposed on me.
I made some comments and suggested and vented my dissatisfaction. But ultimately i am a chinese, and i love my country. To some, my treatment is unfair but yet temporary.
To use me as a propaganda weapon and to use me as a tool, to against china, are angered me the most. I will never do anything against china.
My fate will be and should be decided by china and by the chinese. I will strongly denied European or westerner, try to tell me what to do and to tell china what to do. The day of lecturing china should be over long time ago.
I resent of what Norwegian government has done to me. Take your price back. It is stupid and childish. I don’t want it. I don’t need it.
You can pay and you can fund, to against china, but leave me alone!
Goofball - VARGAS IS NOT A MIDDLE NAME! It's part of the last name.
Plus, the lecture was what you would expect from an old man: society is getting worse, we should return to what it was 50 years ago. Plus some proselytism for literature departments. Wooogh...
I think the last poster was talking about the lecture delivered at Richard Auditorium just after the reception. I concur that the ideas exposed were quite outdated.
You are attending a university, where no ideas are outdated. Stop thinking that your education is yet one more piece of trendy clothing.
I beg your pardon? Is it, for example, not outdated (if not absurd) to say that the Earth is flat? I think it is just as outdated to imply that culture should be dictated by an elite, as the prof's speech did.
Here's the full text of Vargas Llosa's lecture at Richardson Auditorium.
Here is something more interesting.
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