Monday, December 12, 2016

Bob Dylan's Nobel Acceptance Speech

     He makes some interesting remarks here about Shakespeare, and I appreciate him mentioning Thomas Mann. When I was at UC-Berkeley in 1975, I took a class on Mann taught by his son, Michael.

     Still, I wish Bob had read it in person.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-speech.html

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