Dylan's Nobel Prize
Richly deserved.
I hear a bunch of whiney "artistes" who write works others can't understand are griping about it.
To be expected!
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
I agree.
ReplyDeleteSongs are literature, and Bob Dylan is the greatest American songwriter of the last half century and then some (he idolized Woody Guthrie, but in my opinion surpassed Guthrie by the late 1960s or early 1970s).
It might be arrogant to assume that his reputation carries that same weight worldwide, and I don't claim to know. But apparently the Nobel committee thinks so.