More Misc. Dylan Tangled Up in Blue again, and Hurricane w touch of Pynchon
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 16 13:34:05 CDT 2011
Two books on Dylan speak of the influence of an art teacher he studied under
in the late 70s. Dylan claimed he taught him how to 'see"...and changed his
whole understanding of time......(esp in songwriting)
And Eric Gill, in an essay in Mojo originally, now republished as A Simple
Twist of Fate, says that the use of his new conception of time---past, present and future sorta together,
sorta one---in Tangled up in Blue is like that use in Pynchon and (some of)
DeLillo.
Gill then says that later when Dylan wrote some new songs with/influenced by Jacques
Levy, theater director, the new visual acuity combined with musical theater-like narrative
helped tell the Hurricane (and other) stories in song..........
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