I am getting so averse to travel, and especially air travel, that I am beginning to wonder what would entice me to take a longish trip. It just crossed my mind that I would not even go as far as Stockholm to collect a Nobel prize. The trouble with the prize goes deeper, of course: I would never accept it in the first place.

Addendum (June 10, 2016)

On occasion I fret about this brazen piece of writing. What if a Nobel committee comes across it on the World Wide Web? They could well decide not to give me the prize on account of my premature boast. In the event, I would not even have the pleasure to decline it on my own. And it would have been an enormous pleasure in its own right, no doubt whatsoever. Who knows, I might have already forfeited declining a Nobel prize without even knowing!