What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thursday, October 02, 2003
and the winner is..
JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE, for the Nobel Prize in Literature:
"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
A little bit about him here, more here.
