Friday, September 15, 2006

In Bob News


Bob is being accused of lifting good lines from Henry Timrod, an obscure Civil War era poet, and working them into his songs. And?

Is there a debate to be had between plagiarizing and “borrowing liberally”? Maybe for some people, the wretched unenlightened cynics henceforth to be known on this blog as “Bob-haters”.

But I agree with the guy who uncovered this story. He says: "You could give the collected works of Henry Timrod to a bunch of people but none of them are going to come up with Bob Dylan songs." Yep.

1 comment:

cityofmushrooms said...

borrow away, I say
where would will shakespeare be w/out his copy of chaucer to cage stories from?