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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Do they mention the Wiggles?  |
They don't, as far as I can see, but the lyrics seem to be of great merit when one considers the many messages embedded in them while using only 9 different words (if I counted correctly EDIT: 10?)
.
Perhaps I should mention, and this is not trying to pull anyone's leg (or legs in your case), in my comparatively mundane education in English Literature we had a couple of lectures on writing covering mob behaviour and influence. I can remember that the lyrics of Malvina Reynold's
Little Boxes and McCartney's (with a little help from his friends Donovan Leitch and someone called Lennon
)
Yellow Submarine were included for discussion.
I can only remember one book we covered in that, and that was Packard's
Hidden Persuaders, remembered because I still have my copy (it has been in continuous print for nearly 60 years). But that introduces another of the Wiggles Hot Potatoes as I believe that some people do not believe that non-fiction can be proper literature.
For myself, I'm off to watch again my copy of Scorsese's
Last Waltz because I cannot remember much of Dylan's performance in that. Anyway, now that film is confirmed in my mind as being literature, will look to Scorsese being the Literature Laureate for 2017.