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Bob Dylan Nobel laureate

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It seems that Bob Dylan took his sweet time to ponder the acceptance:

http://www.spin.com/2016/10/bob-dylan-acknowledge-nobel-prize/

Torunn

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He didn't have to and he can give the money to charity, if it makes him feel better, but it is a prestigious prize and he should feel proud.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
You mean like 'how many cannon balls must fly before they're forever banned', that kind of thing, totally can't understand, eh.
No, I think he means he literally couldn't make out what the hell Bob Dylan was saying. He always sounded like he was choking on a kazoo.

Even if you could understand what Dylan was saying, he still had nonsense like this:

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead

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Originally posted by Torunn
He didn't have to and he can give the money to charity, if it makes him feel better, but it is a prestigious prize and he should feel proud.
Sartre didn't accept the prize at all, which was his unalienable right. He is in the lists anyway...

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Originally posted by Ponderable
[b]Sartre didn't accept the prize at all, which was his unalienable right.
There are a few, I have read, who have declined for various reasons, that's not surprising.

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I thought Leonard Cohen would get it. (He tried to soften the committee members' hearts by the interview 2 days before the decision: "I am ready to die".

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"American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month, has told the Swedish Academy he will accept the prize.
The notoriously media-shy Dylan had not made any comment on the 8 million crown ($1.5 million) prize, despite repeated attempts by award-givers the Swedish Academy to contact him since it named him as the winner on October 13..."
"It has not yet been decided if Bob Dylan will attend any events during the Nobel Week in Stockholm in December," the Nobel Foundation said on Friday.
Separately, Dylan told the Telegraph that if he could attend the Nobel Prize ceremony he would..."


(ABC News)

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Originally posted by Torunn
"American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month, has told the Swedish Academy he will accept the prize.
The notoriously media-shy Dylan had not made any comment on the 8 million crown ($1.5 million) prize, despite repeated attempts by award-givers the Swedish Academy to contact him since it named him as ...[text shortened]... told the Telegraph that if he could attend the Nobel Prize ceremony he would..."


(ABC News)
He plans to donate whole amount tot rock'n'roll elementary school in Kinshasa for starving African kids. He'll buy them guitars and note-books, and instead of 1 meal they will learn to play guitars and be singwriters.
Special professor would be Bono.
Here is the anecdote form U2's gig in Scotland earlier this year:Bono asked the spectators for total quiet and in that silence, he started to slowly clap his hands and he said "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”

From the crowd a Ascottish accentated voice yelled:
- Well, stop the fyck doing it then, you evil bastard!

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