Deems 2 and Co-Puzzlers,Thank you for your kind words. I haven't really done anything remarkable and was caught up in lethargy. But last night
an epiphany came and I posted my guess. I'm happy I was right, as proof that I "still have it together"
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I was in Europe in the early fall of the year before the Nobel Prize in Literature was to be announced. In Europe there's always an intense guessing game with speculation as to what
country will be honored , this being allegedly the foremost consideration. Sage people in-the-know decided that Portugal would be chosen that time, and they were right.
Saramago was the favorite. But at the time there was a contender, also a Portuguese, 2\
0 years younger than Saramago, from a very different background. His name is
Antonio Lobos Antunes. He lost.
Blindness, the book, defies rules, conventional form, and concentrates on the abstract. Unless the abstract is understood, the attempt of writing a script will fail.
I realize I'm now IT. But rest assured I'll not inflict Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Torquato Tasso or Giacomo Leopardi on you
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Did you see in the last Bytes that we will offer a discussion of Paul Scott's
Staying On? Can I count on your presence ?