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When one Nobel Laureate punches another in the face, it is bigger news than a Hollywood actor slapping a stand-up comic on stage. It is doubtful if anyone will be talking about the Will Smith-Chris Rock incident in the year 2068, but here we are discussing something that happened in 1976.
Neither Gabriel Garcia Marquez nor his then best friend and one-time roommate Mario Vargas Llosa had won the Nobel yet. Now 46 years later, we know one thing for certain: that punch too involved a woman.
