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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
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.
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I wasn't clear, actually. I also need to expand a bit:
It's not the reclusive part; actually, it's the way he turned down the award for "Gravity's Rainbow," which most authors would deem a high distinction, an honor.
Since the Nobel is seen as the 'ultimate' award for a singular work in most instances (and one given not necessarily for a body of work) - ; in short, the Nobel committee might be reluctant to give an award to an author who might not be receptive to such a distinction.
I need to point out all my writing is mere theorizing, sort of like flapping one's arms in a breeze in order to stir the underarm hair.
Don