If it were now to die, ‘Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate…
Dylan is coming on a tour of Australia!! *insert sighs, screams and fainting spells*
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Again not official Wo! business (my justification Anna- is that subversive ideas need to be accompanied by/is good art and music)…
So need to share this gorgeous song i’ve already played a thousand times on Dylan’s bootleg series. This stuff is glorious. Dylan sings it with former lover-singer-collaborator Joan Baez (who substitutes Mama for Daddy). It works either way (and let’s not get into a whole Freudian thing about this…)
(”If you gotta go, go now” on the Bootleg series is also pretty hot. It’s up there with “All i want do (is baby be friends with you) in terms of my favourites.)
Ok so this is not really related to Wo! business but it will interest die-hard Dylan fans out there.
A symposium for Dylan obsessives has convened for a fan meeting in America.
Except these are no ordinary obsessives but groups of scholars and academics (or Dylanologists as they call themselves), including dons of Oxford and Harvard, who are meeting to rapturously gush on the poetry, romance and beauty of Dylan’s stunning body of work.
On Tuesday, a whole crowd of them wrapped up a four-day symposium, billed as the largest ever of its kind, at the University of Minnesota in the state where Dylan was born.”Dylan has entered my day job,” said Richard Thomas, a professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University who lectured on Dylan’s similarity to ancient epic poets like Ovid and Virgil.
“I’ve come to see him as someone as worthy as the great poets on whom I’ve been fortunate enough to work.”
The article goes on to muse on the Dylan’s reaction to his analysts:
And what does the cryptic singer think of this kind of attention?
Well, he once famously derided Dylanologists who “dissect my songs like rabbits.”
But that is not likely to stop the dissecting.
Take British literary critic Christopher Ricks, a 73-year-old professor of poetry at Oxford University who in 2003 published Dylan’s Visions of Sin, a 500-page examination of biblical themes in Dylan’s music.
“I should think people need to explain themselves if they’re not intrigued, enthralled and obsessed with Dylan,” Hicks said during a lecture at the symposium.
“Those of us who are, we don’t have any explaining to do.”
Vindication at last!
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