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Originally posted by sabang View PostSo you admit- his prose was relevant and had an effect. Thank you.
Well, to those wearing Che on their shirts we suppose but those types are generally losers...God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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Heh... well, we know now sabangs favorite musicians are that Commie Joni Mitchell!
...followed closely by the ever popular (amongst commie circles) Hanoi Jane!God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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Our Culture is Blowin' Away in the Wind
https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/201...g-in-the-wind/
The author of that piece got it spot-on...God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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I agree with Klavan's sentiment. While musical lyrics are related to poetry, there are hundreds of award categories for that genre of art (music) and relatively few for real literature. Moreover, Nobel Prizes are generally awarded for new work. The prizes for physics, chemistry, or medicine are almost exclusively reserved for new research. The prizes are never awarded to scientific breakthroughs from half a century ago -- like Dylan's best (ahem) literature. Nor are they a recognition of future or potential greatness like that bestowed on the Messiah. I didn't realize Dylan was still making music and would not be surprised in the least to learn he was already dead. Certainly his award was judged on his "body" of music, err, literature, rather than his current art. Is there no new or recent literature qualified to claim this prize? It's the committee's prize, I suppose they can award it to whomever they like, but I hope they understand the damage they're doing to the prestige of the award.
In a similar vein, the Oxford English Dictionary's word for the year (2015) was this little gem:
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That's right. It's not a word at all. How daring. How cutting-edge. How fcuking lame. Yes, I realize computers are ubiquitous and shortcuts are handy as communication tools, but a laughing/crying emoji is no more English language than this:
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Up your game Nobel committee, and OED, resist the urge to be avant-garde and get on with that which your tradition of excellence rests. The ecclesiastical notion of "Blowin' in the Wind" is thousands of years old and has been re-hashed ad nausem over hundreds of generations. Hardly cutting-edge literature.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/p...the-year-2015/Last edited by Texpat; 10-17-2016, 10:09 AM.
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Anyhoo's- look on the bright side foges!
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Jimmuh has left the building.
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Originally posted by sabang View PostYour culture was the original 'Blowin' in the Wind' culture. But now all of a sudden you are pseudo-Europhile snobs, because the contemporary vote or mood does not suit you.
So I suppose Dylan got it right.God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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How does it feel, how does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home a complete unknown, like a rolling stone. Paging Bob Dylan. Paging Bob Dylan. Do you want your medal and cash?
Nobel Prize committee gives up trying to contact Bob Dylan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...act-bob-dylan/
Heh...even he thinks it's a joke...God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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Bob Dylan labelled 'impolite and arrogant' over Nobel Prize silence
Jayme Deerwester
October 23 2016
Here's one group you don't usually hear associated with celebrity feuds: the people who hand out Nobel prizes.
But one member of the Swedish academy is calling out Bob Dylan over his failure to respond since its announcement on October 13 that it would award the Nobel Prize for literature to the 75-year-old singer. He is the first musician to win the literature award in the academy's 115-year history.
Dylan has not discussed the honour publicly, nor indicated whether he intends to attend the ceremony in Stockholm on December 10.
And as of Friday, all mentions the Nobel Prize had been scrubbed from his official website.
Per Wastberg said Dylan's lack of reaction to the honour the academy bestowed on him last week was predictable, but disrespectful nonetheless.
"One can say that it is impolite and arrogant. He is who he is," Wastberg was quoted as saying in Saturday's edition of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
He went on to say that Academy members had agreed to stop trying to contact him, saying the ball was now in Dylan's court.
Only two people have declined a Nobel Prize in literature. Boris Pasternak did so under pressure from Soviet authorities in 1958 and Jean-Paul Sartre, who declined all official honours, turned it down in 1964.
Literature laureates have skipped the ceremony before. In 2004, Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek stayed home, citing a social phobia.
Bob Dylan has not responded after news he would be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Photo: Getty Images
Harold Pinter and Alice Munro missed the ceremony for health reasons in 2005 and 2013, respectively.
Dylan's attitude may be explained by lyrics from his 1981 song The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar: "Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery. Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your silence for snobbery."
smh.com.au
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My Shocked Face!
The Left Turns on Bob Dylan for His Pro-Israel Views, Refusal to Acknowledge Nobel Prize.https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2016/1...nobel-prize/2/
Good for him!God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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