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What a Transtravesty. Tom Send a noteboard - 06/10/2011 02:59:09 PM
As I sit here, I find myself wondering why other living authors haven't received a Nobel Prize, but an obscure Swedish poet no one has ever heard of has. I guess this is the same flawless logic that gave an American President fighting three wars the Nobel Peace Prize for just having gotten elected.

Milan Kundera would be a very logical choice, given that his complete works have just been released. I might be a bit hesitant to name Umberto Eco, but any committee that gave the prize to Marquez has no business excluding Eco.

The Nobel Peace committee has thoroughly discredited itself. It seems literature is heading that way. I'm sure this little old man writes splendid poetry, but that doesn't make him significant globally.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Tomas Transtromer wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. - 06/10/2011 12:02:12 PM 1012 Views
Who? - 06/10/2011 02:14:23 PM 781 Views
Yeah, that was my impression of it. - 06/10/2011 02:28:02 PM 771 Views
I hate that PC bullshit. - 06/10/2011 02:49:10 PM 782 Views
Tomas Transformer. He's more than meets the eye. - 06/10/2011 02:45:55 PM 720 Views
What a Transtravesty. - 06/10/2011 02:59:09 PM 709 Views
My current theory is that the choice was a last minute switch. - 06/10/2011 04:16:50 PM 783 Views
That is possible. - 06/10/2011 10:27:19 PM 776 Views
Nobel Prizes just continue to become more and more irrelevant..... *NM* - 10/10/2011 03:21:43 AM 383 Views

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