Ex-street urchin wins Nobel Prize

Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Strange but true – in case you haven’t heard, the world is full of amazing people with amazing stories who do amazing things.  Perhaps this is a portent that the hideous catastrophes of the twentieth century are behind us. Well – obviously they’re behind us. What I mean is, here’s hoping that the twenty-first is an improvement.  Who knows?



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2 Responses to “Ex-street urchin wins Nobel Prize”

  1. Patrick said:

    Indeed, here’s hoping.

  2. Barista » Blog Archive » as life twists and turns said:

    [...] Any interruptions to this are central to the development of the piece. Like this, drawn from a post on Troppo Armadillo by Nicholas [...]

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