嘘・嘘つき(lies)の話からはじまるそのスピーチはとてもスマートで、それに続くガザ侵攻への批判(批判というと聞き手の解釈が入っていますが、実際は悲惨な現実を世界にもう一度認識してもらうために事実を語っただけ)、授賞式に出席するまでの経緯と来ることに決めた理由(これがまたいかにも小説家村上春樹らしい)、ニュースにも出ていた「壁(体制・システム)と卵(非武装の弱い人たち)」のくだり、自分が小説を書く理由・意義、昨年亡くなった父親の話、そして最後のメッセージ。最後のメッセージは↓
I have only one thing I hope to convey to you today. We are all human beings, individuals transcending nationality and race and religion, fragile eggs faced with a solid wall called The System. To all appearances, we have no hope of winning. The wall is too high, too strong – and too cold. If we have any hope of victory at all, it will have to come from our believing in the utter uniqueness and irreplaceability of our own and others’ souls and from the warmth we gain by joining souls together.
Take a moment to think about this. Each of us possesses a tangible, living soul. The System has no such thing. We must not allow The System to exploit us. We must not allow The System to take on a life of its own. The System did not make us: We made The System.
That is all I have to say to you.