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But I guess might be a musician with poetic lyrics though. |
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10-13-2016, 11:32 AM | #18 | |
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I'm fairly certain he won it for spending years, decades, writing many songs which have become cultural touchstones, and which would easily fill volumes the size of many award-winning books. ApK |
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God bless Bob Dylan and all, but I sincerely don't get it. |
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Either song writing should be included in the literature category and treated as an equal, or it should not be in the category, and should not be considered. None of this giving Professor Frink the Nobel prize for his combination hammer/screwdriver just because it was a slow year in science.... |
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I meant that I could at least understand it, if there wasn't a traditional contender. Not that I would approve of it and/or prefer it "my way." |
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My initial reaction was a headscratch, but then I thought of all the years the winner's been someone seemingly selected for political reasons, or whom I've never heard of, or both, and I got behind it.
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Anyone who is interested in the way the later Dylan uses literary (and non-literary) sources in his writing should have a look at Scott Warmuth's blog. A good starting point is this article about the use of phrases from Jack London in Chronicles, Vol 1 (which is a maze of literary allusions diguised as a personal memoir.)
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This is certainly true. And I can't get too worked up over it either way, to tell the truth.
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I had no idea "Forever Young" was written by Dylan.
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