14th April 2008

pulitzer

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Thanks to Kathy Applegate for tweeting Dylan’s Pulitzer. Not one of the award ceremonies I follow.

But this song reminds me of someone…

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief,

“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”

“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke,
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

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  1. 1 On April 17th, 2024, Mike Golby said:

    Dave Itzkoff’s is one of the better reviews I’ve read of that most bizarre ritual white people habitually indulge, i.e. the annual awards ceremony.

    I dunno… The Pulitzer means nothing. Its myth is dead.

    Dylan, however, stands strong.

    I do not mean to deride these people’s feeble attempt — from within a husk, to resurrect… what?

    “The voice of a generation?”

    Life is now lived on desolation row, in the valley of dry bone dreams, under a red sky, or in the land of the midnight sun.

    These accolades from a fragmented, half-remembered past recall Cheech and Chong:

    “Knock-knock.”

    “Bob?”

    “Bob’s not here.”

    Itzkoff tries to identify that which is odd, uneasy, or wrong about all this; what turns it into theater or farce.

    I’ll tell him…the gardener is gone.

    And that’s Dylan’s genius.

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