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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>To: Pensacola Mencken List; Musicians & Jazzfans list; DJML<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Norman Vickers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK. So Bob Dylan, in an unusual nomination, receives Nobel Prize for literature!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now that’s a first—one who’s known primarily for his music ( such as it is) gets a literary prize as THE best!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> What’s next? Donald Trump gets the prize for chastity?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I must say that, as a member of the older generation, I didn’t venerate any of the musical or lyrical compositions of his.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sometime approx. ’78 or ’79, Dylan put on a one-man show locally at the University of West Florida’s field-house. My (then) young son and I went. He sang, played guitar and at one point played guitar and had a neck-piece to hold his diatonic harmonica. I must say that I was unimpressed and we left about halfway through his show. I confess that I didn’t listen to enough of the rest of his material to be able to evaluate his lyrics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note that I still like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives so it’s not the genre that I <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>am unappreciative, it’s that what little I’ve heard of Dylan has failed to generate interest for me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any thoughts? What have I missed that the Nobel committee was enthralled with?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Norman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>