In this jejune and portentous one-act, Pinter stumbled on a psychological truth that he continued to explore brilliantly for half a century: mankind's passion for ignorance.
This book explores brilliantly the broader conflicts at issue, and is now a standard work in this arena.
He explored this brilliantly in his book Bounce, where he dismantled the theory that great achievement, sporting or otherwise, is about natural talent.
Or did he borrow Tolstoy's words as a way of "confessing," instead, to the chasm that both he and Ferrante have jointly explored so brilliantly in their fiction — the one that can exist only between husband and wife?
And, of course, stories like "Miriam" led to other cinema-inspired narratives like 1950's "A Diamond Guitar," which, in turn, presages the themes Capote explored so brilliantly in "In Cold Blood," and in his 1979 piece "Then It All Came Down," about Charles Manson's associate Bobby Beausoleil.
"I Dream a Highway", from 2001's Time (The Revelator), occupies a hazy space where mountain music dissolves into visionary minimalism, while "No One Knows My Name" explores brilliantly the social weightlessness of adoptees.
And where the production numbers of 1929 mostly respect the actual dimensions of a theater stage, by 1930 they had expanded into the non-Euclidean dream space that Busby Berkeley would soon be exploring so brilliantly.
More recently, the Saudi Layla al-Juhani, in Jahiliyya (2006), has brilliantly explored the intersection of love and race/colour in her homeland.
And it is all brilliantly explored through a museum dedicated to "The people who have made objects of great beauty from the soils of Staffordshire".
Rather than offering comfort or encouragement to a defensive new nation, the book brilliantly explored the unresolved tensions of the post-apartheid order.
