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Another bad example for young people. Do the right thing and get nothing. Be a loser drug addict and get an award. Yay rock n roll.
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Originally Posted by MyNameIsBellaMia
He lost his voice and he lost his mind. Yah, he's a loser.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas de Quincey, Margeaux Hemingway, Edger Allen Poe, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Edvard Munch, Francisco Goya.
These are just a example of artist that were drug abusers and/or people that lost their mind. Are they losers? If needed I could add to the list as this are older references.
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
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Originally Posted by slyfox2
I'm noticing a continuous cheapening of the the prize.---like giving the Peace Prize to Obama for just winning the election back in 2008. While I am a fan of Obama and voted for him twice, he has done nothing in the last 8 years that qualified him for the world Peace Prize.
Yes, the board that decides these things are evidently bias. It's like watching Jeopardy and thinking there is a chance for someone other than an Anglo-Saxon Christian to win.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
Brilliant lyricist, mediocre singer... I've always gotten much more from reading his work than hearing it. Maybe that's why they are considering it literature.
Some of my Asian-American/-Canadian friends are crying racism and posting stuff about how much they hate white people over this, since Haruki Murakami was also in the running.
Hmm. Granted, Murukami is one of the greatest writers of this generation, the influence and volume of work from Dylan is just as deserved. They're both brilliant.
"Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their marks
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
-Bob Dylan "It's Alright Ma (I'm only bleeding), 1965
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Doing drugs makes you a loser. It means you can't cope. I know, because I used to be an alcoholic and I woke up to my bad choices and chose to be sober.
So..by your own logic, you're a loser? ..or is it just you that gets credit for recovery?
one of the best things for us Bob-bos about this is a chance to see all the career introspection and write-ups celebrating his catalog and he didn't even have to pass on like so many great artist do to really focus in on their contributions.
heard a review of his concert (he's been on tour since 1988) in Coachella the day the award was announced and Bob didn't say a word the whole concert. Not too unusual for Dylan but he usually at leasts introduces the band and maybe a hello, but not a peep from Bob the whole concert. He'll probably show up to collect his award but don't expect much of a speech. After all, everything he has to say is right there in his songs.
He is a great songwriter. I was so surprised to see this, though. I don't know if I've ever seen the Nobel awarded for someone's lyrics before.
I feel the same way. I can appreciate his talent, and have for years. But I feel it doesn't fit in a Literature category.
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