Ghosts of the Civil War

[Robin Landseadel]

 From an interview, mostly about Obama but here is an interesting  
detour into the Civil War, very Thanatoid.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6043331.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1

	Bill Flanagan: When you think back to the Civil War, one thing
	you forget is that no battles, except Gettysburg, were fought in
	the North.

	Bob Dylan: Yeah. That’s what probably makes the Southern
	part of the country so different.

	BF: There is a certain sensibility, but I’m not sure how that
	connects?

	BD: It must be the Southern air. It’s filled with rambling ghosts
	and disturbed spirits. They’re all screaming and forlorning. It’s
	like they are caught in some weird web - some purgatory
	between heaven and hell and they can’t rest. They can’t live,
	and they can’t die. It’s like they were cut off in their prime,
	wanting to tell somebody something. It’s all over the place.
	There are war fields everywhere … a lot of times even in
	people’s backyards.