The Noble Prize for literature in 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan for "having created new poetic expression within the great American song tradition".
Harpers Magazine says that “literary means not only what is written but what is voiced, what is expressed, what is invented, in whatever form". More restrictively, it is writing considered as an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.
Is "Blowin in the Wind" literature?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4nVByCL44
Operate & Play some Leonard Cohen?
I have heard it said of Leonard Cohen that his music brought "Light" into our lives. I like his music so when I went to the hospital with a heart attack not to long ago I had occassion to think of him.
I had been on the operating table 3 times before. It was metal and even with the towels it was cold. The room was busy with people walking all around. I was flat on my back on the table mostly naked. Music was playing and everyone seemed to be happy about it. The young doctor who was in charge came over and asked what I wanted to hear as music? Of course we both knew that in a few minutes I likely wouldn't be listening to it.
I figured he was just being kind but I wondered if they even knew who Leonard Cohen was so I suggested Cohen.
In my semi conscious state I was betting that they wouldn't know him and I was right. No one in the room knew him.
They did try to find him on whatever device was providing the music for the operating room. No luck but I was just glad it wasn't the music from "All that Jazz" and that operating scene. (Truth is you would have to have seen that movie to know why this comment has any relevance).
They went back to their own music choices and I slipped out of consciousness.
Are we accountable for what we see as well as what we do?.
How is it that we remember some things, and not others? Are we accountable for the things we remember? If we don't remember then are we off the hook? What about what we read? What we read sometimes makes a connection. We experience things even through fiction that we would not experience without it so we are effected by it. Are we accountable for the fiction we read?
Is what we are, the result of what were accountable for, only.. Does being blamed make us somebody?
