Aug 29, 2018

Bob Dylan Is a Literary Genius








"Can I ask him what he thinks of Dylan?"
She gave his head a shake. "No."
"Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas?" Cal asked, earning a narrowed look from William and one of
surprise
from Libby before she remembered his affection for poetry.
"Either," Will decided.
"Dylan Thomas was brilliant but depressing. I'd rather read Bob Dylan."
"Read?"



Time Was








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By Baezadany - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33614171




What set Bob Dylan apart from everybody was something more outlandish: It was how he wielded language. “Like a Rolling Stone” was surreal – in the sense of infusing the known with the unknown, certainly in ways never heard before in a popular song. Phantasmagoric images flew by as retribution and entered our parlance. Some heard it as arbitrary wording, nonsense. Others called it neologism, a new direction.
Now, 50-some years later, Dylan is receiving the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature


ROLLING STONE













πŸ‘‰Life imitating Art πŸ‘ˆ

Nora Roberts published Novel TIME WAS in 1989.
Bob Dylan is awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016