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In his very brief but poignant Nobel acceptance speech, affirming the relevance of original thought to the ordinary people, JM Coetzee asked: 'And for whom, anyway, do we do the things that lead to Nobel Prizes if not for our mothers?...Why must our mothers be ninety-nine and long in the grave before we can come running home with the prize that will make up for the trouble we have been to them?'
(Uit een oude nieuwsbrief van Thabo Mbeki die echt over van alles schrijft in zijn ANC-nieuwsbrief)
In his very brief but poignant Nobel acceptance speech, affirming the relevance of original thought to the ordinary people, JM Coetzee asked: 'And for whom, anyway, do we do the things that lead to Nobel Prizes if not for our mothers?...Why must our mothers be ninety-nine and long in the grave before we can come running home with the prize that will make up for the trouble we have been to them?'
(Uit een oude nieuwsbrief van Thabo Mbeki die echt over van alles schrijft in zijn ANC-nieuwsbrief)
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