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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib dropped this squib
Thomas Pynchon [20/1] - a writer that I hope wins, but he's way too controversial a figure. . . . In fact, now that I think about it, if he won, he would probably not accept an award, as he did with "Gravity's Rainbow." That means that he will probably not win the Nobel. He's too controversial.
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If I understand you correctly, Doctor, the odds are slim Pynchon will win because he's reclusive and tends not to accept awards. Do you mean something else when you say he's controversial? I hadn't ever thought of him that way and grew up reading him, too.
He lives fairly close to my old apartment in NYC. I had a few brief newsgroup exchanges with him in the 90s, but that was the internet. I've never actually seen him, as other friends claimed to have done.