Bob Dylan getting a Nobel prize for literature while Thomas Pynchon is alive is pretty fucking goofy. And that's what Dylan's award was: a stunt. The Nobel committee was fucking with the real writers while getting themselves some lively press. But any prize like that fucking thing is only as good as the people giving it out, and the literature committee really might as well have given it Kissinger if they were looking to ruin that particular Nobel for everyone else.
I mean, when are the Mekons getting their Nobel? And if you give it Dylan, you pretty much gotta give one to his favorite offspring with Lou Reed Ira Kaplan.
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