The Ventriloquists

Harold PinterHarold Pinter

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I send my voice into your mouth
You return the complimentI am the Count of Cannizzaro
You are Her Royal Highness the Princess AugustaI am the thaumaturgic chain
You hold the opera glass and cardsYou become extemporaneous song
I am your tutorYou are my invisible seed
I am Timour the TartarYou are my curious trick
I your enchanted caddyI am your confounding doll
You my confounded dummy.
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Harold Pinter

Plays, including The Birthday Party (1958) and The Dumb Waiter (1960), of British playwright, screenwriter, and director Harold Pinter create an atmosphere of menace; people awarded him the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005. This English actor, political act…

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