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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's hardly backpeddling to show that you threw up a strawman of your own making and then tried to rhetorically tie me to that. Why should I try to defend a position that I neither said nor hold?
There are a lot of reasons why I question if the Nobel prize is the most important prize in Literature. Most are purely observational. I suppose if one really wanted to know, you could poll writers about which award would they most want to win, but I hardly have the urge to do so.
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Only one of the two that you mentioned are observational. Unless I missed your source, that you didn't mention, about low sales increases. In any case it would be hard to track, without reliable source, a correlation between Nobel Prize and increased sales, let alone show a causation. Most other prizes in literature concentrate on a single book, or possible books if it happens to be a series, that are recently released.
Only because you say so, doesn't make it so. Among all the reasons you could have mentioned, you cherry pick two. I have to assume, please correct me if I am out of line with my thinking here, that those two reason are the most important to you. Why, oh why, did you have to drag Bob Dylan into the spotlight and ignore last years scandal? That, in my humble opinion, did a whole lot more damage than both your prime reasons combined. You would unfortunately also have to admit that last year's events gave a good beginning to start reparations of lost trust and reputation in the Nobel Prize as it was intended to be. No more sex, crime, and corruption. Maybe even less euro centricity going forward.