I don't know if I'd say "so excessive," but then again, I'm a fan of his songwriting
Larry Send a noteboard - 11/10/2012 05:40:35 AM
I'd vote for Viktor Pelevin before I'd vote for Dylan. Eco and Kundera would be my first choices, in that order, yet their odds are longer than Dylan's.
That being said, cool as it would be to me if he won the award sometime, I am half-expecting an Arab writer, perhaps the Syrian Adonis, to win it this year. Having read his poetry, he is a deserving candidate, but beyond him and the Lebanese Elias Khoury, I don't know of many Arab writers worth considering.
And yes, I'm trying to think "political" here, which is part of the award criteria these days, it seems
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- 10/10/2012 11:31:45 PM
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She totally deserves it.
- 11/10/2012 12:09:19 AM
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Totally.
- 11/10/2012 12:18:46 AM
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I'm sure the medal could double as a branding iron for S/M games. *NM*
- 11/10/2012 12:38:37 AM
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Bob Dylan? Really? That's so excessive I don't know where to begin.
- 11/10/2012 12:36:54 AM
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I don't know if I'd say "so excessive," but then again, I'm a fan of his songwriting
- 11/10/2012 05:40:35 AM
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Sure, and Sir Mix-a-Lot had a catchy number, too, but he's not nominated.
- 11/10/2012 01:56:00 PM
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And the winner is: Mo Yan
- 11/10/2012 12:10:45 PM
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I saw the movie of Red Sorghum in Chinese Cinema class in undergrad.
- 11/10/2012 01:59:48 PM
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Over on Westeros, I kept seeing speculation months ago that it would be him
- 11/10/2012 05:42:34 PM
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Me neither, but that movie won a Golden Palm at Cannes if I'm not mistaken. *NM*
- 11/10/2012 10:36:52 PM
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The link takes me to betting on sports personalities or some such
- 11/10/2012 04:13:36 PM
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