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Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 09:37:58 UTC 2020


More learning for me. Male did not seem right but....

Thanks.

Okay. the whole NO gang out for money?

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:27 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> According to Wiki HOTRS is not necessarily about a girl:
>
> "There is a common perception that prior to The Animals the song was
> about and from the perspective of a woman. This is incorrect, as the
> narrative of the lyrics has been continually whipped back and forth from
> a female to a male cautionary tale."
>
> I don't see Garrison here but suspect a veiled reference to the whole
> NO situation (Banister, Oswald, FPCC etc.) prior to the assassination.
> What would be the connection between Garrison and prostitution in NO?
>
>
> Am 02.04.2020 um 11:09 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> > Yes, I know of Dylan's /House of the Rising Sun /and even a bit more
> > about it than below......so, yes, this is the first and richest start of
> > some explication but......I was just in SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY fashion
> > trying to add /more/ resonances....I think I have learned about some of
> > Dylan's
> > self-driven forays into learning some inside stuff of American
> > history......story of him reading newspapers reporting on the Civil War
> > at the New York Public Library, for one
> > ........
> > I know about New Orleans and the song but what I still find puzzling,
> > and I know I sorta work against my own words about loose loose
> > associational connections is
> > that the song is about girls who ruin themselves in inevitable, no other
> > way to survive, prostitution in that loose city. So, loosely, Jim
> > Garrison is kinda glanced at here?
> > Can't really carry those resonances for the sacrificed Pres, right?
> > .....or can?
>


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