Re: Review of Nevin book on Juenger

["Umberto Rossi" <urossi@programatic.it>]

> Indeed. One of th great authors of the century should
> be rewarded the Nobel Prize in 1997, to eradicate the scandal
> of 1996 when an unknown Polish poetess with a Stalinist background
> was presented with the prize.

Do you really believe that Nobel prizes are awarded to writers only 
because they have written something good?  Where's the Nobel prize 
for Jorge Luis Borges?  Where's the Nobel prize for Thomas Pynchon?  
And Joyce?  Thomas Bernhard?

Come on, Nobel is not based on quality.  It is a fine specimen of 
political correctness.  Nothing to do with literature.

(Do you know that no Italian writer will ever receive a Noble prize 
for I don't know how many years only because the only member of the 
committee who was knowledgeable of Italian literature and language 
died 6 or 7 years ago?)

Umberto Rossi

"A commission is appointed 
To confer with a Volscian commission 
About perpetual peace"--and nobody told me!