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[Burnsite]

He's on the cover of the New Yorker this week.  I love that.

I think he's likely to decline the Nobel.  That Sir C Ricks, recently the Oxford Professor of Poetry, wrote a whole book about Dylan, _Bob Dylan's Vision of Sin_, got  Sir Chistopher in some trouble but might have helped the Nobel people.  Ricks is best known as the finest editor of Alfred Tennyson ever.  He likes traditional poetry, has written books on T S Eliot, and has taken Bob Dylan just as seriously. 

[Vivian]

The only time I ever enjoyed Bob Dylan's songs was when someone else sang them. I never cared for his performances. And if he's rude enough to ignore the great honor of the Nobel Prize, he should not receive the award.

[Burnsite]

From an Internet site discussing people who have declined Nobel Prizes:

Jean-Paul Sartre (existential philosopher) declined the 1964 Prize in   literature.  In his words:

It is not the same thing if I sign Jean Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

[tobes]

Bob Dylan is above the Nobel Prize.

[deepwaterdotter]

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@Burnsite wrote:

From an Internet site discussing people who have declined Nobel Prizes:

Jean-Paul Sartre (existential philosopher) declined the 1964 Prize in   literature.  In his words:

It is not the same thing if I sign Jean Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

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Should Mr. Dylan decline the honor, he will be in respectable company.

[chiclets]

Dylan is Dylan.

He is being himself.

[nrm]

Stuck inside of Mobile ,but Don't Think Twice ,It's All Right. .

[Burnsite]

I'm not posting again to give anyone grief about an earlier post.  Dylan has always been grumpy and reclusive, which has little to do with whether he is a good writer.

Anyway, I was reading an internet story (HuffPo) about a Nobel Awards committee member who is now calling him rude, which he has always been anyway, and someone posted the most wonderful quote from a song of his:

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"Try to be pure at heart; they arrest you for robbery.
Mistake your shyness for aloofness, and your silence for snobbery."

(Dylan, "The Grooms Still Waiting At The Altar.")

[proudlyfromNJ]

Blowing in the Wind, where he always has been from day one.

[truffle]

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@Burnsite wrote:

I'm not posting again to give anyone grief about an earlier post.  Dylan has always been grumpy and reclusive, which has little to do with whether he is a good writer.

Anyway, I was reading an internet story (HuffPo) about a Nobel Awards committee member who is now calling him rude, which he has always been anyway, and someone posted the most wonderful quote from a song of his:

- - - - - -

"Try to be pure at heart; they arrest you for robbery.
Mistake your shyness for aloofness, and your silence for snobbery."

(Dylan, "The Grooms Still Waiting At The Altar.")

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But he has not responded to the Swedish Committee that awarded him and they have stopped trying to contact him.  The man is 75 years old, too old to use the same hangup gimmicks of his youth.