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DiapDealer · 10-13-2016, 09:07 AM

I have no problem with Bob Dylan; and I have no problem them with massaging his "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" into being considered literature. It just seems to me that there was some damn fine straight-up literature (which didn't need to be massaged to fit the category) that probably should have won.

It opens the door for NAS and Snoopdogg twenty years down the road, though.

10-13-2016, 09:07 AM	#6
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,695 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I have no problem with Bob Dylan; and I have no problem them with massaging his "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" into being considered literature. It just seems to me that there was some damn fine straight-up literature (which didn't need to be massaged to fit the category) that probably should have won. It opens the door for NAS and Snoopdogg twenty years down the road, though.