/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8621667]

You should read this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/14/i-nominated-bob-dylan-for-the-nobel-prize-youre-welcome/

[Anonymous No.8621690]

>>8621667
>For more than a dozen years, I recommended the poet and musician for the honor
No means no. Gordon Ball literally raped the Nobel prize.

[Anonymous No.8621766]

booms pls die

[Anonymous No.8621810]

>Examining prize criteria, I learned that Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will specified that in literature the work must be “the most outstanding ... of an idealistic tendency
>idealistic
Wrong! Wrong! Ideal means ideal not idealistic.
W

[kitty !kitty/EnNg No.8621870]

yeah it's quite a shame

also made me remember /lit/

you seem to calm down though because i barely see any discussion of it

[Anonymous No.8621896]

>article defending Nobel Prize for Dylan
>well-thought out piece

And then we have this shit:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/14/bob-dylans-nobel-prize-isnt-radical-hes-just-another-white-male-writer

[Anonymous No.8622446]

>>8621810
They do this shit all the time. The science prizes are a sore point in Engineering circles because they're obviously meant for engineering type contributions.

In fact getting around the wording is part of why the science ones end up getting awarded decades after the contribution usually.

[Anonymous No.8622513]

>>8621896
>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/14/bob-dylans-nobel-prize-isnt-radical-hes-just-another-white-male-writer
and people dont want a nuclear holocaust

[Anonymous No.8622566]

>in preceding year
Do words just mean whatever they want to these people?

[Anonymous No.8622643]

>>8621896
bob isn't as great as a poet as many other black musicians in the past.

[Anonymous No.8622760]

>>8621667
Dylan nearly did a collaboration with Zappa, but Zappa's dog growled at him and Zappa made a joke about it.

[Anonymous No.8622777]

>>8621667
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/13/a-world-that-gives-bob-dylan-a-nobel-prize-is-a-world-that-nomin/

[Anonymous No.8623296]

>Gordon Ball is Visiting Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, where he teaches about poetry, creative writing and the literature of the Beat Generation.
>where he teaches about poetry, creative writing and the literature of the Beat Generation.
>Beat Generation.

[Anonymous No.8623310]

Thanks you fucking asshole

[Anonymous No.8623332]

>>8623296
It wasn't him, Gordon, it was you. Remember that year in the Nobel you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your year. We're going for the price on Dylan." You remember that? "This ain't your year"! My year! I coulda taken Dylan apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Gordon, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end prizes.

You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a stoner, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Gordon.

[Anonymous No.8623333]

>>8622643
Who's better? Son House? Illiterate Willie Johnson? Do you know how traditional folk music even worked? Are you aware that most of the revered black blues musicians Dylan took influence from were reciting lyrics they didn't write?

In your next post, please post some of that sweet black musician poetry of the past that is of superior quality to It's Alright Ma

[Anonymous No.8623340]

>>8621667
Reads like Boomer stupidity written by a deadbeat professor. Also, the Beat Generation is painfully mediocre.

[MoonManOtto !!lI8rRKAI6cz No.8623347]

>>8621667
Bob Dylan is a better writer than that guy that wrote Infinite Jest lolololol

[Anonymous No.8623349]

>>8623296
>>8623332
>Gordon

Looks like Otto's faggy alter-ego just pissed away what little dignity the Nobel had left.