Did Bob Dylan make up a Moby-Dick quote for his Nobel Lecture? By Ben Greenman Last fall, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. There were immediate complications. Dylan did not contact the Nobel committee to acknowledge the honor, nor did he travel to Stockholm to pick it up. Patti Smith filled in for him at the December ceremony, performing “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” For the award to be officially conferred, Dylan also had to deliver a Nobel lecture. And that's exactly what he did. Yesterday, an audio version of the lecture appeared, produced a little bit like his Theme Time Radio Hour (same sly cadence, piano backing for some of it), along with a transcript at the official Nobel site . Early in the lecture, Dylan remembers discovering music, specifically Buddy Holly, who activated his sense of songwriting and performance. Later, he tweaks the Nobel committee for equating songs and literature (“Songs are not literature,” he says, “They’re me