At this peaceful 6-acre site in Waregem, Belgium, rest 368 of our military dead who gave their lives in liberating the soil of Belgium in World War I. Headstones surround a white stone chapel. Its altar is of black and white Grand Antique marble, with flags draped on each side; above it is a crusader's sword outlined in gold. Forty-three names are inscribed on the Walls of the Missing.
In the parashah, Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, tries to hire Balaam to curse Israel, Balaam's donkey speaks to Balaam, and Balaam blesses Israel instead.
I couldn't belive the words "dumb ass" actually appear in the KJV until someone posted it on FR.
I think Hugo’s funeral attendance used to be listed as a world record... apparently the entire city of Paris came out for it. I think we should be that way with writers, teach young people that words and word-craft is important.
Indeed, God breathed Creation into being with the Word!
Sadly, we are living in an age where a few years ago, activists at the University of Pennsylvania removed the portrait of William Shakespeare that had hung over the staircase in the ENGLISH DEPARTMENT for the prior 100 years and replaced it with a black lesbian poet that no one outside their bubble has ever heard of, then or now.
That's why it will be up to devotees of Dylan's work to foment widespread tributes of many kinds.
I’d say the Nobel prize in Literature 2016 is being recognized.
I think Obama's receipt of the Nobel for Peace ten years earlier so totally turned off most on this Forum that there is virtually no subsequent award that we would have considered noteworthy, not because of the recipient, but because of the stain on the Nobel Committee. But I take your point.
When he dies, the USA should give him a funeral like France gave Victor Hugo.
A beautiful vision. Whether it is accomplished or not, his devotees will do plenty.
Wonder if you saw Patti Smith accepting Dylan's Nobel Prize? He had too much investment in his man of mystery image or his actual humility to accept it himself; so he asked her to go in his place. She was so nervous, she flubbed up, apologized and had to start over. I could not believe my eyes at the entire spectacle.
He is truly a poet. One day he will be recognized with the great ones.
I'm old now. I'm starting to recognize how hard it is to recognize true genius or true greatness among one's contemporaries, because they are with us for a long time, we see their human struggles and mess ups, and to a certain extent we take them for granted. Even worse, the greater they become, the more the left denounces them. Only after time passes do you see how they stand out from the rest. I give you Bob Dylan, Queen Elizabeth, Donald Trump.
A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and in his own house. —Matthew 13:57