NP - Bobby D new nobel

[Mark Thibodeau]

Touche!

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe they’ll give Pynchon a Grammy.
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> *From: *<owner-pynchon-l at waste.org> on behalf of David Morris <
> fqmorris at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:26 PM
> *To: *Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com>, Pynchon Mailing List <
> pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject: *Re: NP - Bobby D new nobel
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> https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/photos/a.158628314237.115142.
> 63811549237/10154819903169238/?type=3&theater
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> Obama:
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> "Here’s what I love about Dylan: He was exactly as you’d expect he would
> be… He came in and played ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’.’ A beautiful
> rendition. The guy is so steeped in this stuff that he can just come up
> with some new arrangement, and the song sounds completely different.
> Finishes the song, steps off the stage—I’m sitting right in the front
> row—comes up, shakes my hand, sort of tips his head, gives me just a little
> grin, and then leaves. And that was it—then he left. That was our only
> interaction with him. And I thought: That’s how you want Bob Dylan, right?
> You don’t want him to be all cheesin’ and grinnin’ with you. You want him
> to be a little skeptical about the whole enterprise. So that was a real
> treat."
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> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> ish & David, and everyone else ―
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> As always: both/and . . .
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> In awarding the prize to Bob Dylan, the Swedish Academy is no longer
> ignoring America as the media has gone on about forever AND they are giving
> a big Fuck You! to American writers and their whining champions AND they
> have given the award to someone who absolutely deserves it and *has*
> impacted the world (ish is correct: Pynchon, DeLillo, Roth, etc. have not
> [enough]) AND they show they are not rigid, but open in defining
> "literature" (you can disagree with their definition, but you will have a
> hard time defending one that *is* rigid and delineated) AND they can
> continue to show the ridiculousness of Ladbrokes, etc. book-watching for
> determining the winner―that they are their own, independent decision-making
> body AND they can move forward without having to debate American names
> again for the next twenty years (by which time all the usual suspects will
> be off the table) AND they are giving a big Fuck You! to American writers
> AND they have given the award to someone who absolutely deserves it . . .
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> > On Oct 13, 2016, at 2:21 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Dylan's impact is so much greater than Pynchon's. He has, seriously,
> > changed the world. Pynchon and Roth have not.
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> >> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Bob Dylan? Seriously? Before Pynchon?
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> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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> >> On Oct 13, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> They're probably laughing about it over dinner and drinks.
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> >> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:03 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
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> >>> A bet Tom sends him a fax.
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> >>> ciao
> >>> mc otis
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