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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 13 Oct 2016

    I've been a fan for 50 yrs, but have to agree: Why Bob Dylan Shouldn’t Have Gotten a Nobelhttp://nyti.ms/2e00mDH 

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      1. Bruce Lambert‏ @bruce_lambert 13 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        Not a writer? Has he been sculpting? Dancing? Pretty sure what he does counts as writing. Sour grapes novelists and poets. Go Bob.

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      1. Constantine Sandis‏Verified account @csandis 13 Oct 2016
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        err he writes song lyrics...songs have been part of the literary canon all along, from Homer through Shakespeare to Blake

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      1. John McIntosh‏ @thejohnway 13 Oct 2016
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        Wrong. Song lyrics are a form of poetry; poetry is literature. How is he not a writer?

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      1. SivaB‏ @SivaB40 13 Oct 2016
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        really? What's the point of literature if it doesn't move people.

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      1. Goffredo Puccetti‏ @goffredodotcom 13 Oct 2016
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        I usually think you are rarely wrong: but when you are, oh boy, you are Nobel Prize Wrong! Songs lyrics are, of course, literature

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      1. Leanne Davis‏ @Cosmic_Slice 13 Oct 2016
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        His music evolved from beat poetry & combined it with traditional folk/protest music. Are you saying such poetry is undeserving?

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      1. Yiorgos Nikolaidis‏ @gnikol 13 Oct 2016
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        Weak argument. In the same logic, Samuel Beckett and Bernard Shaw shouldn’t have been awarded a Nobel either.

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      1. Hamza Twomey‏ @HamzaTwomey 13 Oct 2016
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        Hamza Twomey Retweeted Philip Gourevitch

        @PGourevitch seems to disagree.https://twitter.com/pgourevitch/status/786633869877469184 …

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        Philip GourevitchVerified account @PGourevitch
        So no playwrights—Fo, Beckett, Pinter, O’Neill—whose work is for performance? Literature doesn’t, as you claim, mean only poets & novelists. https://twitter.com/annanorthtweets/status/786629149418852353 …
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      1. Julian Denny‏ @julian_denny 13 Oct 2016
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        @acfick72 Dylan's lyrics do stand apart from the music - Times they are changing, Blowin in wind, Chimes of Freedom, + many more

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      1. Eric Valley‏ @ericsvalley 13 Oct 2016
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        Bob Dylan is a writer who sheds light FAR better than most. And this will get people to read - more than most.

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      1. la tafiole sucree‏ @latafiolesucree 13 Oct 2016
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        Ginsberg was jealous that he hadn't written Tambourine Man. Not a writer?

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      1. Ben Fathi‏ @BenBfathi 13 Oct 2016
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        have to disagree on this one. The man is a poet. He also happens to write some music on the side. I applaud the choice.

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      1. Aframerica‏ @Aframerica 18 Oct 2016
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        Who should have won the Nobel Prize for Literature? @sapinker

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      1. Shane Wagoner‏ @shanewag1 13 Oct 2016
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        The committee gave good reasons for why they chose him. Like Homer and Sappho, music has always been tied to literature.

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      1. Marc Lluís‏ @marclluis 13 Oct 2016
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        "As reading declines around the world", really?

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      2. Fuat Domaniç‏ @fuatdomanic 13 Oct 2016
        Replying to @sapinker @nytimes

        One should not expect too much from an entity which nominated Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Trump! for the Peace Prize!

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      2. Lainie Marsh‏ @lainiemarsh 13 Oct 2016
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        We should bear in mind that Bob couldn't give a rat's ass one way or the other.

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