Posted on 10/27/2016 4:54:00 AM PDT by rktman
So Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." His name is now enshrined among a list of laureates that includes luminaries like T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
It's a tremendous honor for the legendary singer-songwriter, that's for sure. But it's also stirred up its share of controversy. I won't debate Dylan's award—I'll leave that to my esteemed colleagues Andrew Klavan and Ron Radosh—except to say two quick things. First, when the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to people like Yasser Arafat and Barack Obama, did it dim the luster of the prizes in other categories? And second, I like the idea of songs like "Gotta Serve Somebody" and "Saved" (and, apologies to Andrew, even "It Ain't Me, Babe") joining the pantheon of Nobel Prize-winning literature.
But now that the reliably left-leaning Nobel Prize Committee has given Dylan an award, a funny thing has happened. The left has begun to turn on Dylan for being less than the predictable leftist they have expected him to be.
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Who ever thought Dylan would be a deplorable!
How does it feel, Bob? To be on your own...
I’m liking Bob more each day.
The times are a changin’.
A complete unknown...
I’m thinking Bob is at a point in his life where he doesn’t give a sh!t what other people think.
the post office was stolen and the mail box locked ...
"First, when the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to people like Yasser Arafat and Barack Obama, did it dim the luster of the prizes in other categories?"one wonders if he is aware there are different committees that select and award the winners for the Nobel Prizes.
1. Prize Awarder for the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2. Prize Awarder for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
3. Prize Awarder for the Nobel Prize in Literature: The Swedish Academy
4: Prize Awarder for the Nobel Peace Prize: The Norwegian Nobel Committee
Like a rollin’ stone?
Dylan just went up a couple of notches in my esteem.
Like a Rolling Stone...
Blowing down the backroads heading south
Idiot wind...blowing every time you move your teeth
You're an idiot babe
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
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(Not you rktman but those on the Left)
They had a lot of nerve
To say they were his friend
Whew! I thought you might have heard us at the jam session last night.................. ;0)
That is by far the best Bob Dylan song of all time. LOL.
Leftists are self-righteous narcissists who self-identify as the superior ones worthy enough to occupy all places of honor, power, control, and dominance. They are the morally pure new ‘gnostics’ whose omniscience allows them to know everything, know it perfectly and enact it perfectly. So when the ‘divine’ ones award a glittering symbol of excellence to someone who is beneath them and who nevertheless snubs it, his rejection is taken as a personal put-down, a question mark above the omniscience and purity of the divine ones whose cosmically inflated egos are as fragile as rotten eggs. In order to patch the cracks in their shells they must punish (destroy) Dillon.
Remember: BREATHE!!!
lol
Propaganda all is phony.
I always kinda liked ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ I mean, if he can manage to insert DeLaCroix in the song, it can’t be all that bad. That’s for my coonass brothers and sisters of course.
Now you’re gonna have to get used to it...
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