Tangled up in Pynchon
Joe Allonby
joeallonby at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 07:54:34 CDT 2011
I would like to be associated with the remarks of the previous poster.
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi foax
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> Long time, no post. I see the P-list digests are *still* screwed up. What gives, I wonder?
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> Noticed the Dylan mention, and couldn't resist chipping in....
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> << Mark Kohut wrote: I don't know music but I do know that "Tangled Up In Blue" is about Bobby and Joni Mitchell, who did BLUE (an album). >>
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> Whoooooooops! Don't think so. In fact the connections (such as they may be) between 'Tangled' and Joni's 'Blue', have been, at best, hugely overplayed. Peronally, I don't think the claim that Dylan's song was named for 'Blue' rings even half-way true.
> If you're interested, here;s a little piece I did for popmatters, on 'Tangled':
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> http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/125123-every-one-of-them-words-rang-true-the-defiance-of-time-in-tangled-up
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> Cheers
> J
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