{"id":1921,"date":"2007-06-21T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaninka.net\/stefan\/2007\/06\/21\/bokmenntagagnryni\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T09:56:09","slug":"bokmenntagagnryni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/2007\/06\/21\/bokmenntagagnryni\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00f3kmenntagagnr\u00fdni"},"content":{"rendered":"

J\u00e6ja, \u00fe\u00e1 eru Bretarnir b\u00fanir a\u00f0 a\u00f0la Salman Rushdie. Craig Murray, einn af m\u00ed\u00adnum upp\u00e1haldsbloggurum skrifar fr\u00e1b\u00e6ra f\u00e6rslu um m\u00e1li\u00f0<\/a>. Hann botnar ekkert \u00ed\u00ad \u00fev\u00ed\u00ad hvers vegna menn \u00feiggja svona nafnb\u00e6tur:<\/p>\n

I can talk about Salman Rushdie’s honour with a certain earned hauteur, having in the course of my life turned down three honours myself (LVO, OBE and CVO, since you ask). I have never understood why people accept honours when there is so much more social cachet in refusing them.<\/em><\/p>\n

People in the FCO always imagined I turned them down because of a vague egalitarianism. Actually it is because, as a good Scot, I felt no need to accept anything from a provincial German family notable for lack of intellectual distinction. The Queen asked me, in Warsaw, why I refused, and I replied it was because I am a Scottish nationalist. She replied „Oh good“ with a charming smile.<\/em><\/p>\n

Annars vi\u00f0urkennir Murray a\u00f0 hafa einu sinni \u00e1 \u00e6vinni \u00feegi\u00f0 vi\u00f0urkenningu af \u00feessu tagi:\u00c2\u00a0 I do have one honour – I am an Officier de l’Ordre du Mono.of the Republic of Togo. This was given me by the late President Eyadema, who as far as I know was the only recent Head of State who strangled his predecessor with his own hands.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ni\u00f0ursta\u00f0a Murrays er s\u00fa a\u00f0 \u00fea\u00f0 hafi veri\u00f0 \u00fat \u00ed\u00ad h\u00f6tt a\u00f0 a\u00f0la Rushdie – ekki endilega vegna \u00feess a\u00f0 hann hafi sett allt \u00e1 hvolf me\u00f0 meintu gu\u00f0lasti \u00fearna um \u00e1ri\u00f0, heldur vegna \u00feess a\u00f0 hann s\u00e9 enginn afbrag\u00f0srith\u00f6fundur. Held a\u00f0 \u00fea\u00f0 s\u00e9 talsvert til \u00ed\u00ad \u00feessu – amk \u00feekki \u00e9g ekki nokkurn mann sem hefur n\u00e1\u00f0 a\u00f0 berja sig \u00ed\u00ad gegnum S\u00f6ngva Satans.<\/p>\n

G\u00f3\u00f0ur drengur, sem er einmitt a\u00f0 fara a\u00f0 gifta sig um helgina, sag\u00f0i einhverju sinni um dau\u00f0ad\u00f3minn yfir Rushdie a\u00f0 \u00fea\u00f0 v\u00e6ri mikill misskilningur a\u00f0 hann v\u00e6ri sprottinn af tr\u00faarofst\u00e6ki. \u00deetta v\u00e6ri miklu frekar d\u00e6mi um beinskeytta b\u00f3kmenntagagnr\u00fdni!<\/p>\n

Megi Moggabloggi\u00f0 f\u00e1 \u00ed\u00adr\u00f6nsku \u00e6jatollana upp \u00e1 m\u00f3ti s\u00e9r.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J\u00e6ja, \u00fe\u00e1 eru Bretarnir b\u00fanir a\u00f0 a\u00f0la Salman Rushdie. Craig Murray, einn af m\u00ed\u00adnum upp\u00e1haldsbloggurum skrifar fr\u00e1b\u00e6ra f\u00e6rslu um m\u00e1li\u00f0. Hann botnar ekkert \u00ed\u00ad \u00fev\u00ed\u00ad hvers vegna menn \u00feiggja svona nafnb\u00e6tur: I can talk about Salman Rushdie’s honour with a certain earned hauteur, having in the course of my life turned down three honours myself … Halda \u00e1fram a\u00f0 lesa: B\u00f3kmenntagagnr\u00fdni<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truflun.net\/stefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}