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I Won a Nobel Prize, ask me anything: AMA
submitted by Feldenstein Calypso
Hi. I'm back for my third IamA. Here today to answer your great Reddit questions about the Nobel Prize for literature that I recently won. Ask me anything you want and I'll try to answer!
Proof: http://northwoodsmanifesto.blogspot.com/2017/02/proof.html
Update: Thanks everyone. This has been a lot of fun. Great questions, great community!
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thefirstofmanyfakenames 109 points
Feldenstein Calypso {S} 243,695 points 36 hours ago
Fun. Weird. Exciting. Painful, Rewarding. Lots of free fancy buffet things they have a special name for over there. Just one, er, fiery speech.
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bigkinkadefan067 1609 points
. The thing is, who wouldn't want to win a Nobel Prize for Literature? But wonderfully there are plenty of them to go around- a new one roughly every year, and if you apply yourself to your writing maybe you can win one too! Harry Martinson won one. Why can't you? Just, a small piece of advice; There are specific ways to form a question and yours came out looking more like a statement. A tip off is that you had no question mark at the end, and that's a dead giveaway. But don't give up. Keep working at it and you'll get the hang of it. We're all pulling for you.
[–]waitwaitmeme 79 points
How did you first hear you'd won the Nobel Prize?
Feldenstein Calypso {S} 243,695 points 37 hours ago
[–]unique43068 11 points
How much money do you get?
[–]ordontwatchthem 62 points
I think he gets something like 1.4 million dollars.
[–]2manynamestocomeupwith 719 points
What authors did you and Dylan badmouth?
Feldenstein Calypso {S} 243,695 points 36 hours ago
It doesn't seem right to say.
Aw, but, well, what the hell, okay, I'll say just a couple.
Kazuo Ishiguro and Thomas Kinkade. We hate those guys.
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[–]butIpersevere4 76 points
Thomas Kinkade? Is he like that crappy Painter of Light guy? He writes?
Feldenstein Calypso {S} 243,695 points 35 hours ago
Sort of. He has some co-writer who does all the work and they used to produce Romance Novels "together". Kinkade mysteriously won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature for them. Now that I have one of my own I can kind of see why Bob gets so worked up about it. But Neil's always teasing Bob about it.
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[–]doyounoticethese? 666 points
Neil? Neil Young?
[–]cuztheyrealotofwork 1 points
Yeah, I think so. I read something about Neil, Dylan, and Calypso tasting liqueurs together.
[–]butifyounoticehi 14 points
No, it's mixed cocktails. I read an article in Vanity Fair.
[–]IlikeaNegroni 3 points
They taste exotic cocktails together. There was an article somewhere.
[–]youwillnowbeslightlykinder 223 points
Link?
[–]youaregettingsleepy zzzz points
Here
[–]doyouevergetyourself 369 points
Your link is dead.
[–]intomorethanyoubargainedfor 514 points
I know the Nobel is supposed to be for life's work, but a lot of times there's sort of an iconic work, like Steinbeck and Grapes of Wrath, or Toni Morrison with Beloved, or Thomas Kincaid (and Katherine Spencer) with Home Song, A Cape Light Novel. Do you have a particular post that you think stands for your work in the Nobel Prize?
[–]itsallthisformattingugh 55 points
Crap, he's not answering. I really wanted to hear this one too!
[–]unique43069 11 points
Hey, big fan here. Thanks for your wonderful daily blog posts. They mean the world to me and all my friends who I insist read them and then I ask them about them every day no matter what. No one could be more deserving of a Nobel, in my opinion, than you. So my question, is it true about your acceptance speech to the Nobel Prize committee, or is that just a wild legend?
Feldenstein Calypso {S} 243,695 points 6 hours ago
Thank you for your kind words. It really keeps me going.
For good or ill it's all true. I still have a small burn scar on my wrist that tingles when it's very cold out. My tux is singed too.
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[–]Sullyprudhomme 36 points
What? What happened with the acceptance speech?
[–]Fredericmistral 23331 points
How were you burned?
[–]joseechegaray 14 points
What did you do to those Swedes?????!!!!!!!
[–]IstilllikeaNegroni 3 points
Tell us!!!
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