Who will be the next American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

has lex heard any of bob dylan's literature yet

I will admit dylan is a better writer than stephen king. Of course, so is my dog's vomit.

yeah: https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2012/sep/13/bob-dylan-tempest-lyrics xp

A he was given such a mediocre record for review

This idea that giving the prize to a bad beat poet modeling himself on Rimbaud and Whitman is somehow fresh because modernism is dead is insane. Yeah, Joyce was nearly hundreds of years ago, but Dylan's lyrics are still some oldfashioned/reactionary bullshit.

Well, not 'hundreds', but...

xp A shame he was***

reactionary?

or old fashioned?

He probably is a fascist tho'.

Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows
That Baby’s got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl

Queen Mary, she’s my friend
Yes, I believe I’ll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can’t be blessed
Till she sees finally that she’s like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl

It was raining from the first
And I was dying here of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what’s worse
Is this pain in here
I can’t stay in here
Ain’t it clear that

I just can’t fit
Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don’t let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl

transplendent!

Its not like T S Eliot does any better than this.

lex was pretty otm

I wish Frederik had just said Dylan sucked

i don't care who wins any award but the idea that lyrics can't be "real" poetry or literature is some reactionary nonsense

Dylan sucks! Especially his 'electric' period, which is what I assume the committee referenced in their statement.

lex was pretty otm

Why are you being wrong about his electric period (and it was electric no need of scare quotes)

I already miss Morbz, at least he would've gotten my joek

what happened to Morbz?!

51'd

Over the US elections?

I guess? Admin Log thread says it was a "slow accumulation". I didn't see anything particularly egregious, just his usual crap.

I just sometimes use scare quotes around terms. His acoustic songs from his electric period suck as well.

we are talking about Morbz now

"morbz"

also all this discussion should be on the de lillo thread, to annoy philip roth

wtf this is permanent?!

yeah you get to keep them iirc

Dylan sucks! Especially his 'electric' period, which is what I assume the committee referenced in their statement.

Wooden poetry > electric poetry

glad fred is as sensible about poetry as he is about u.s. politics

fred is sub-hongro at best.

his sanctimonious schtick is almost Morbzian maybe we can make him nu-Morbz

I'll continue til I'm seventy, and then my posts will win the Nobel, and won't you all feel stupid.

No one will take the Nobel seriously by then we would have all grown-up

Also the Swedes are wellknown Danophobes, complicating my plan further.

wtf this is permanent?!

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah you get to keep them iirc

― Har-@-Iago (wins), Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:03 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i lol'd

Mookie I want you to know that I only fpd u itt because I know you are never gonna approach 51 and we're still cool ok

I think the Nobel Prize Committee was just feeling kinda irrelevant, marginalized and down in the dumps and they needed something to cheer themselves up, so they made a pick where no one would say "huh, who's that?", a pick that would get people talking, a pick that provoked passion. Just watch, next year they'll pick whoever is the national poet of Kyrgyzstan.

Still, weird for them to lower themselves to the level of Q Magazine

Being associated with Dylan elevates the Nobel Prize

if anything in my opinion he is underrated and should get this prize again next year (for his painting)

finally, alfred has truly atoned

everyone must get atoned

Any other known plagiarists won the Nobel before?

"Good writers borrow, great writers steal." - Nobel Prize winner T.S. Eliot

if anything in my opinion he is underrated and should get this prize again next year (for his painting)

Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to the motion pictures industry at next Oscars, gotta happen.

Fred has warmed me to Dylan winning this tbh

as long as my favourite poster LUMBAGO MUJO is still around i'm happy