Da Fuck, Bob!?

[Rev. Rye]

As a long-time fan, I have to mention that Dylan has a history of (for lack of a more adequate word) trolling his fanbase. In the earliest days of his career, he made up this long, convoluted backstory about his days traveling America as a hobo, learning folk music the old-fashioned way, and not being a suburban kid from Minnesota who just liked to learn from records. And since 1965, he's been known to radically change his style if he felt people were too used to it. And look through his discography for all the many albums organised from themes that seemingly came right out of nowhere, from his Christian phase to his recent Christmas and Sinatra tribute albums to the massive clusterfuck that is Self-Portrait to that one compilation album he put together to celebrate his choice to allow a song of his in a Victoria's Secret ad, not to mention the extremely elliptical Chronicles, Vol. 1, which focused largely on his earliest Greenwich Village years and two of his least popular albums.

This shit is not out of Character for Dylan is all I'm sayin'.

Also, given how many past Nobel laureates have been in situations where, if they accepted the prize in person, things would be made very difficult for them in their home countries (Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak both come to mind in the literature category, as well as Carl von Ossietzky, Liu Xiaobo and Aung San Suu Kyi, who were all given their Peace Prizes while in prison for crimes against their authoritarian regimes) a "must accept in person" clause, like mh.brewer suggests, could very well hamper the Nobel voting process in the future.