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He absolutely deserved it. Much more so than that Russian woman who got it recently. Tom Send a noteboard - 05/04/2017 04:18:37 AM

I had to go look up her name - Svetlana Alexievich. She's not at all famous and I never heard her name mentioned in any literary sources prior to the award. Of course, I haven't taken the Nobel Prizes for Literature or Peace seriously for the past 15 years due to this sort of highly politicized bullshit. Though I guess it's been like that for as long as it existed - they refused Tolstoy the honor and gave it to Sholokhov, etc., just like the Peace committee is a complete joke.

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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