Richard Farina

[Glenn Scheper]

Occasional mentions here of Richard Farina sent me surfing.

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/farina.html
_Richard Farina_

http://www.hlmusic.com/RichardMimiFarina.htm
_Richard and Mimi Farina Appreciation Page_

http://www.bookpeople.com/infobook.html?isbn=086547642X
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina - By David Hajdu

> Hajdu compellingly asserts that Farina, not Dylan,
> invented folk rock and provided fodder for Dylan's
> trademark sensibilities.

http://www.richardandmimi.com/beendown.html
_Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me_

 Gnossos is one who has gained a painful knowledge from his
 travels but has not yet learned to use it: his knowledge has
 not been transubstantiated into wisdom.

 Later in the novel we will meet G. Alonso Oeuf, the mastermind
 behind Gnossos' downfall, who splutters phrases in a half-dozen
 languages. But behind his pseudo-sophistication lies nothing but
 cliches; he too represents the fallen state of the modern world.

 Gnossos' quest is to find the meaning behind the easy
 allusions.

 By his own admission, Farina was still in the process of
 "resolving the conflict between Inside and Outside,"
 which he describes as Gnossos' role as well, in an
 article written a few days before he died.

http://web.utk.edu/~wparr/exist.html
_Dylan & Existentialism_

 About the madness of becoming
 what one was never meant to be
 'Groom Still Waiting at the Alter'

http://www.well.com/user/yudel/Lyrics.html
_Jewish Readings of Dylan Lyrics_

 Jokerman
 So swiftly the sun sets in the sky
 Your rise up and say goodbye To no one

http://www.literatureclassics.com/ancientpaths/dylan.html
_Bob Dylan's lyrics and biblical allusion_

(many subpages)

http://www.seeklyrics.com/view_songs/BOB_DYLAN.html
_BOB DYLAN Lyrics_
 Blowing In The Wind

Farina correctly places Odysseus, Gnosis and Oeuf
(french for egg) in the expansive mania after AF.

But Dylan also correctly uses these terms. In fact,
after the Tao, Dylan lyrics were one of the things
most likely to send me back onto the mental ward.

For example, years later I can say the isomorphism
is excellent that six-labia angels and two-labia
birds fly on a AF's 'wind' stretched between heaven
and hell, that phallic source of pneuma, or breath.

I say these little cliques discussed and disseminated
the trans-nascent possibilites of AF and AC. Look at
the hypertrophied lip elevator muscles on Wadsworth;
No square chin on Higginson either:

http://www.sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/dickinson.html
 Dickinson loved a man whom she called
 "Master" in three drafts of letters.

http://faculty.stcc.cc.tn.us/bmcclure/lessons2/dickinson.htm
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So when I heard on TV of Joan Baez, likened to being able to
hold two notes at once, I said it was a yogic stretch payback.

http://www.firstmusicreview.com/Very_Early_Joan_B000000ELX.html
_Very Early Joan - Joan Baez_

 Every startling note vibrates in
 your chest - her vocal range is unbelievable. The eruption
 of the notes themselves becomes the religious experience.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
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