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Unread 06-14-2017, 07:19 AM
Roger Slater Roger Slater is offline
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I revere Dylan and think he's a genius, but it seems to me he phoned his lecture in and didn't have much to say. He basically wrote a book report about three famous books and told us that the books had themes that inspired him, though he didn't give us examples of songs he wrote that were connected in any way to the books. The book reports themselves were solid undergraduate English major stuff offering no unique insights. I think ultimately he was trying to show that his songs count as "literature" because he is a literary type who found inspiration in great books, but he ultimately didn't deliver the goods on that. I forgive him, though. As I said, he's a genius.
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