[Piefloater]

Jelinek, a feminist author who suffers from a social phobia, declined to receive her prize from Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf saying the public spotlight was ‘‘like a physical violation’’ for her.

I have a family member who suffers from Social Phobia. Equating the attention resulting from winning the award to something like rape sounds to me more like a symptom of being a feminist author than of Social Phobia.

Here is a quote from her acceptance speech -

“Why insult someone, because he cannot find his way back to the path of journeying, of life, of life’s journey, if he has borne it — and this bearing is no bearing someone, but nor is it any kind of bearing on — has simply fortuitously borne it, like the dust on a pair of shoes, which is pitilessly hunted down by the housewife, if a little less pitilessly than the stranger is hunted down by the locals. What kind of dust is it?”

Any idea what this might actually mean?

[muawiyah]

Just gimme' the money.

(At last, a recipient who has figured out what it's really about.)

[Hildy]

I love it. Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey host the "tribute" to the woman who calls for the end of Corporate Greed. Can you name me two people who represent corporate entertainment megalamania more than these two? It's a hoot.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Ever read A Clockwork Orange?

I think she put too much Synthemesc in her moloko.

[goodnesswins]

The "winning" "WRITER" wrote THAT?

[Kirkwood]

"Any idea what this might actually mean?"

It obviously means nothing.
Nobel prizes have become a sham.

[Atchafalaya]

I believe she is quoting from a Kerry campaign speech to the Teamsters!

[Chode]

i guess the khat was kicking in about then...