Nobel Prize

[Charles Corlett]

Okay, nothing against Seamus Heaney and not to appear to be culturally 
imperialist, but is the Nobel becoming completely irrelevant or what?  
Quality?  Perhaps, I'm being shortsighted, because of course Forrester 
won the prize, but the last few winners seem to me a little ridiculous 
and calculate--funny an Irish writer should win this year?  This 
especially glaring when there is a major artist from the U.S. who's 
approaching his mid-70s and who was considered, by his own admission, for 
a few years in the 1970s.  Future generations are going to look back and 
wonder what the hell we were doing!  What about Mailer...and Pynchon I 
don't stress as vehemently because he's much younger, and is going to 
astonish with a great big book right?