Like a trolling stone.
Remember when Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year and everyone lost it?
He was the first songwriter to receive the award — considered the highest honor in literature. Writers and musicians deliberated about whether he should have been eligible, and Dylan himself was characteristically rebellious about the whole thing, declining to attend the Nobel ceremony in Sweden. A member of the Nobel committee concluded that Dylan's behavior was "impolite and arrogant."
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Well, earlier this month, he delivered an official Nobel lecture on a topic in literature of his choosing — a requirement for honorees before they can receive their $900,000 prize money.
The lecture, about his relationship to literature and its power to distill the vast mysteries and complexities of life, was mostly well-received.
He focused on three literary classics: Moby-Dick, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Odyssey.
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But this week, Slate's Andrea Pitzer noticed that a segment focused on Moby-Dick contains a lot of similarities to... SparkNotes.
Yes, the same SparkNotes that definitely wasn't the basis for that one English Lit paper you wrote during prom season.
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