A Damning Side-by-Side Comparison of Bob Dylan's Nobel Speech and the SparkNotes for Moby Dick

by Christopher FrizzelleWell, this is awkward. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
I thought there was something weird about Bob Dylan's Nobel lecture the first time I listened to it, but I couldn't put my finger on it. It was Ben Greenman who first noticed that Dylan quoted a line that doesn't actually appear in the book, but Greenman had a charitable take on the mistake:It appears, from all available evidence, that Dylan invented the quote and inserted it into his reading of Moby-Dick. Was it on purp