{"id":5453,"date":"2017-06-07T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/07\/bob-dylan-on-moby-dick\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:07:59","slug":"bob-dylan-on-moby-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/07\/bob-dylan-on-moby-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan on Moby Dick<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan finally gave his Nobel Prize for Literature lecture<\/a>. I'm impressed. Besides his musical he mentions his literary influences. He cites many of the books I read as assigned readings in high school, books he claims to have read as assigned readings in grammar school<\/em>! I'm talking about some serious tomes: Moby Dick<\/em>, Ivanhoe<\/em>, A Tale of Two Cities<\/em>, Don Quixote<\/em>, Robinson Crusoe<\/em>, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Audio here<\/a>. Dylan's comments on Moby Dick<\/em> are from 6:27-12:30.<\/span><\/p>\n

A BBC article<\/a> with some of the text. Full text at first link above.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bob Dylan finally gave his Nobel Prize for Literature lecture. I'm impressed. Besides his musical he mentions his literary influences. He cites many of the books I read as assigned readings in high school, books he claims to have read as assigned readings in grammar school! I'm talking about some serious tomes: Moby Dick, Ivanhoe, … Continue reading “Bob Dylan on Moby Dick<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,167,40,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-dylan","category-literary-matters","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}