Nobel Consideration (was Re: Ideal and idealistic)

[Dave Monroe]

I concur.  Also, too many white guys in recent years.
Let's just hope the Swedish Academy gets 'round to him
before [insert knocking on wood sound here] ...

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:

> I have my doubts about this year being the year for
> Pynchon, but I think that Against the Day could
> prove to be a decisive factor in subsequent years.
> 
> I admit this is very speculative. I don't think
> I've ever predicted any Nobel Prize correctly.

If only I'd put money on Oe, Grass and, as I recall,
even Kertesz, (and had I had to put money on the line,
I'd likely have hedged my bets, at least, with Naipaul
in 2001; I knew it'd be a Chinese author in 2000, had
Bei Dao sign a book for me, but ...) ...

Some interesting stats here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature

Though as always, and, of course, as we in particular
know well with the Wikipedia, caveat lector ...

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