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Dafyd
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Goes to Bob Dylan.
Philip Roth must be over the moon (or not).

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quetzalcoatl
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Well deserved, as he has produced a culturally very important body of work.

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Sarasa
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I'm a bit of a Bobcat and every year there are threads on Dylan boards about how he should win the Noble Prize. I never thought he actually would, so I'm surprosed and very pleased.

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Pigwidgeon

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I was delighted this morning when the NY Times emailed me with the news -- and immediately thought of our friend, Zappa*.
[Yipee]

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no prophet's flag is set so...

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Ring them bells, you heathens!

Glad to see it was for literature and not for singing.

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Enoch
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Never been as impressed with Bob Dylan as a lot of other people seem to be, but there have been some fairly odd awards for the Literature prize over the years.

I think most people would allow Kipling, Yeats, Shaw, Eliott, Hemingway and several others their places in the first rank of Anglophone writers alive since 1901. But I don't think many people would admit Pearl Buck or Doris Lessing to that pantheon.

It's difficult to evaluate some of the ones who wrote in other languages. Knut Hamsun turned out to be a quisling, and also seems to have been a racist.

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Zappa
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I was delighted this morning when the NY Times emailed me with the news -- and immediately thought of our friend, Zappa*.
[Yipee]

I'm busy dancing beneath the diamond sky ...

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balaam

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Hey Bob:

How does it Feeeeel?
Hoe does it Feeeeel?

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Uriel
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I discovered Bob as a teenager in the early 90s. Ever since, whenever I moved to new student digs or a new house I always play Dylan continuously for 24 hours to sanctify the new home. When I married in '95 he played at my Stag Night, where 30,000 people celebrated my last few days of bachelor freedom (OK, when myself and best man went to a festival where Bob played, but in our hearts we knew the whole thing was my Stag Night).

Only last year I came across "Long ago, far away" for the first time. Not on any of the albums, one of his early songs (written when he was about 21) but lyrically it was so sharp, ironic, socially engaged. That such a song, far better than just about anything I hear nowadays (yes, my 12 year old daughter's music has turned me into a sneering curmudgeon), could be tucked away anonymously in someone's back catalogue shows just how brilliant Dylan was in those early days.

And then his poem "Last thoughts on Woody Guthrie", read on stage at the New York City's Town Hall. Damn his insightful 21 year old mind, crafting phrases that neatly sum up just how I feel, and have often felt, at so many points through my life. Nobel prize thoroughly deserved.

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