Fo dies, the most discussed Nobel Prize winner, on the fringes of "literature" in its narrowest and most commonly accepted sense. On the same day, the same Nobel is awarded to Dylan, another figure from a world that only loosely connects to literature, that of song, but which has contributed to innovating that world like very few others.
On the same day.
Fo has been described as a medieval jester. Dylan, the minstrel of Duluth.
The jester and the minstrel. United by a Nobel and a date.
Bob might have called it "a simple twist of fate."
Dario, a mystery buffo.