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Bob Dylan: Nobel Laureate?

Posted October 13th, 2016 at 9:59 pm (UTC-4)
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It’s hard to believe that the Nobel committee would bestow it’s literature prize to Bob Dylan. But it’s as hard to believe that he hadn’t won it already.

Don’t Turn Away From the Art of Life

Posted February 25th, 2016 at 12:09 pm (UTC-4)
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The regime of information may well sport its specific truths, but it is locked out of the associations, subjective but also moral and philosophical, that bathe all literature. A new technology like GPS provides us with the most efficient and direct route to a destination, but it presupposes we know where we are going.