sentences: "The work of cataloguing the full archive, a process documented in the BL's official "Harold Pinter Archive Blog", was completed in December 2008 (before Pinter's death on the 24th), the description of its contents was uploaded to the BL "Additional Manuscripts Online Catalogue" on 2 February 2009, and then the archive was re-opened to qualified researchers and scholars.Pinter satirises academics or intellectual "distance" in several of his plays, beginning with his character Edward, a scholarly writer, in "A Slight Ache" (1959) and continuing with Teddy, an English philosophy professor in an American university who refuses to become "lost in it", in "The Homecoming" (1965), and Devlin, an English academic, in "Ashes to Ashes" (1996).