On "It's All Good"

[Mark Kohut]

My usual 'reading' of that song---but I'm an irony fan which anyone who likes 
Pynchon might be
is of 'irony' of "it's all right, ma, I'm only bleeding".....

And that interview supports that, which I wixh I had seen...


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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Mark Kohut wrote:
> ---MB notices:
> Stencil: "What's the matter with Whitehall?"
> Demivolt (singing): "It's all right!"
>
> never caught that call-and-response before!
>
>
> Neither did I!...and now it reminds me of the semi-pervasive line
> "it's all good" that goes around this country.......
> And Dylan's terrif version which has so much ambiguity, i.e. richness of 
double
> interpretation in
> that latest, next last?, CD...........
>


but also, plotwise, Moffit has more faith in Whitehall than Stencil,
as we shall see.

I saw a Dylan interview where they asked him what made him write that
song, "It's All Good" and he simply said, "I heard that phrase one too
many times" or something like that