Ideal and idealistic

[The Great Quail]

> Pynchon will never get it. Apart from the literary merit, nobody will receive
> the Nobel Prize who tells us about scatological sex, I´m sure of that...

I honestly think Pynchon will never get it; but not because of his lewd
humor, but because he is not a team player. The Nobel Prize is above
everything else, a *political* prize. They'd have to be crazy to give it to
a guy who is just as likely to send Matt Groening to accept the prize as he
is to decline it.

Plus, of course, he is a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant heterosexual male
American! 

I think the only way Pynchon will win the Nobel is if someone holds a gun to
the committee's collective head and says, "Norman Mailer or Tom Pynchon!
Pick, motherfuckers, PIIIIIICK!!!!"

--Quail