Re: Nobel Prize In Economics Diminishes All Other Nobel Prizes

From: Bulba! (bulba_at_bulba.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:12:16 +0100

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:32:46 GMT, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> "Toby":

>>>Why is it the [Nobel] committee's fault that someone has not
>>>read any works by the authors it chooses?

>> It chooses books that are no damned good.

>That is a subjective judgement. Define "damned good" and "no damned
>good" so that anyone who reads the definition will agree with it.

That's damn hard to do, as "we don't control what we don't measure",
and obviously nobody has found the way to "measure" the value
of literary work (perish the ridiculous thought) - but, but, as
Joseph Conrad has put it, "the art should render the highest
kind of justice to the visible universe". If you apply this kind of
standard to a book, it at least becomes clear if it is poor.

When committee members have awarded Saul Bellow, they awarded
a writer who is exceptionally good at dragging the truth about
real world out to the light, so we could all see it.

Recently, when they awarded that idiot from Austria, they have
not so much appreciated someone who "renders justice to the
visible universe" as attempted to use the publicity they have
to shove their petty sympathies down the throats of people, by
awarding the "work" that attempts to use whatever publicity it
has in order to shove her petty sympathies and antipathies
down the throats of people. 

--
It's a man's life in a Python Programming Association.

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