Did Bob Dylan crib his Nobel speech?
mainA journalist has found 20 close similarities to the SparkNotes crib site on Moby Dick.
Maybe it wasn’t Bob that copied it. Maybe one of his staff…
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like Dylan’s laureatshiFtcy like his speech …. like father like son
You can’t expect a mega-genius to write his own speeches. Serves the Swedes right, publicity seeking nonsense from a bunch of ageing trendies.
I’ve got your point , “mega-genius” sounds seriously 😉 probably “of all times” was omitted
I find it interesting that a 76 year old entertainer who has 20 tour dates in the next 30 days is being carped at over bupkis here.
A colleague of mine in teaching, well over 10 years ago, said she’d recently been to a Dylan concert – having been a lifelong fan – and said it was dreadful; a disgrace. And she was a dour woman not given to hyperbole.
“The times, they are a changin’ ” and maybe she is just unable to, if she really is that dour.
There is a quote in German which is said to be from Leonard Bernstein: “Wenn man nach islamischem Recht Dieben eine Hand abschlagen würde, dann gäbe es unter den Komponisten und Schriftstellern viele Einarmige.” Probably a translation into English could be something like “If you would knock off the hands of thieves according to islamic law then there would be many one-armed composers and writers.”
He had to rearrange its phrases and give it all another name…
It does seem that when Dylan has to do something he doesn’t really want to, such as write this speech, he can take shortcuts…