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

[ish mailian]

The allusiveness of the song, as Mark noted, is very interesting,  and
I would begin, not with T.S. Eliot or The Wasteland, not with that
American poet, but with Shakespeare. The reward/award speech, wherein
D gets himself in trouble by identifying with Oswald, and, more
importantly, the letter he wrote about it, are key to my reading of
song. The Letter ends with an allusion to MacBeth:

out! out! brief candle
life's but an open window
an I must jump back thru it now

see yuh
respectfully an unrespectfully

(signed, 'bob dylan')

The song begins with an allusion to _Hamlet_, the title taken from a
dialogue between Hamlet and his father's ghost ( a part played by the
actor William Shakespeare, who also played the Player King in the Play
within the Play. The ghost says what D days in his letter, that murder
is always horrible but this murder, the murder of the king was a
Murder Most Foul.

That's a tricky line. I could write a book on it.
Dylan wrote a song on it.

Foul. There's the rub-a-dub-dub three weird sisters say

Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair.

Big word for Billy from Avon, that Foul.

Unnatural Murder. That's what Foul means. It means Unnatural.
Now to Unnatural. What's its meaning?


Things are not what they seem to be or not to be.

Paranoia.









On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:16 AM Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> Here is the footage:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt7aE3Vdr2w
>
> Am 01.04.2020 um 10:46 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> ...and/but I did not know that
> > re the quote........wow.
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