Do old Nobel prize winners fade into oblivion ...

[Dreamwoven]

Jainitous started thread on Selma Lagerlöf in 2002(!). See http://www.online-literature.com/for...Selma-Lagerlof.

[ennison]

Another resurrected thread. Good to read it again even if one feels one's own contributions were largely invalid or no longer held.

[Dreamwoven]

Thats a paradoxical reply, ennison. Have you read anything by Selma Lagerlöf?

[ennison]

I was referring to this thread. Of Lagerlof I know nothing.

[Eiseabhal]

I think Ennison that she donated her Nobel prize to the Finns when the Commies invaded.

[Dreamwoven]

Can't find an Ennison who won the Nobel Prize??

[North Star]

Can't find an Ennison who won the Nobel Prize??

I think you're confusing things. Eiseabhal said to ennison that Largerlöf donated her Nobel prize to Finland, as she indeed did donate the gold medal she had received. The actual prize money she used 30 years earlier to buy her childhood home.

[Dreamwoven]

Thanks, North Star, that cleared it up for me.

[Eiseabhal]

Yes, indeed Dreamwoven, I should have used at least one comma in that post to make it clearer. Thank you for interpreting it for me.

[ennison]

I wish they had Nobel prizes for the things I'm good at - digging drains, planting spuds. Note the dash and comma Eiseabhal. I can give you a lesson in punctuation if you cross my palm with siller. PS I think you meant to thank North Star not Dreamwoven!

[Eiseabhal]

Hah Pedant!

[ennison]

I prefer to consider myself accurate and succinct. Pedantry is something quite other.