I learned my first Dylan song today "Hurricane"

[Richard Ryan]

This is how I read "Joey" - another great song from the same album
about a fundamentally disreputable character.  It would be easier to
do in the case of "Hurricane" if there weren't so much facile social
commentary in the song.

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:04 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> The song has not much to do with Carter. No more than Rodney King has
> to do with Watts. These men are no more real than Tom Robinson and
> Bigger Thomas and Invisible Man. Reading the song this way, one can
> divorce it from Carter the man and keep Carter the character in the
> song.
>
>



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Richard Ryan
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