NP nor Pandemic. We can all talk about this new song and why Bob released it now?

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you...I just made up the phrase "up usage" which I was using akin to
the uptalk concept in linguistics, trying to be wonderfully original or
ignominiously stupid ...and/but I did not know that
re the quote........wow.

anyway, one bad line, which seems to be the early consensus........even
Homer nodded......If it weren't for ruthless Ezra
there would have been some lame lines in The Wasteland.....

A couple more listenings and *The Wasteland* and iterations of are my
overarching feeling about the song.
The soul of the last best hope [allusion to a bad novel about the times] or
(of) America gone.

when I first read *Oedipus*, I read the whole cycle, the trilogy, not as
much referred to anymore it seems, all reduced to
that blinding first play not least because the next two are not as
"dramatic' but I still have a feeling for* Oedipus at Colonus*
where blind Oedipus stumbles across the wasteland he self-created......

I felt, thought of, that with this song....and No, unlike The Wasteland and
its From Ritual to Romance stuff, I do not think
Dylan alludes to it at all, this is my interpretative reading beyond the
text...

but what Thomas educated me about that line shows why I would like every
line and image explored......

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:16 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> I don't know what an "up usage" is, but "I am just a patsy" is a direct
> quote from Lee Harvey Oswald.
>
> Am 31.03.2020 um 20:58 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> > Here is my admittedly fanlike hearing of the patsy line....
> >
> > Since THE Patsy is a person worth being like, the first patsy is
> > an up usage of it, so to spin.
>