“Bob Dylan Says He’ll Skip Nobel Ceremony (He’s Busy)”: Post 3 on multiple personality-like inconsistency of Nobel Prize in Literature winner.

“Yesterday evening the Swedish Academy received a personal letter from Bob Dylan, in which he explained that due to pre-existing commitments, he is unable to travel to Stockholm in December and therefore will not attend the Nobel Prize Ceremony…”

However, “his official website lists no tour dates after Nov. 23” (1).

First, Dylan made himself unavailable when the Swedish Academy tried to notify him of the award. Second, he announced his pleasure at winning the award and his wish to attend the ceremony if at all possible. Third, he is unavailable to attend the ceremony for no believable reason.

Bob Dylan demonstrates the puzzling inconsistency and the subjective variability in his sense of personal identity that are seen multiple personality.

As previously quoted, Dylan has said: “I think one thing today and I think another thing tomorrow. I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else. I don’t know who I am most of the time” (2).

Bob Dylan may or may not think of this as multiple personality. I could not be absolutely sure that it is multiple personality without my (or someone else’s) having spoken to, or otherwise confirmed the presence of, one or more alternate personalities. But certainly Mr. Dylan has done and said enough to raise the possibility of his having multiple personality, putting him in the company of other winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature discussed in past posts.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/books/bob-dylan-nobel-ceremony.html?_r=0

2. Jonathan Cott (Editor). Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews. New York, Wenner Books, 2006.