Murder Most Foul (np)

[Raphael Saltwood]

There may be more than the musical references to MMF, certainly.

It's just that, sweet fancy Moses, there are a ton of them. And each of them no doubt means something to Dylan, but most of them also convey emotional import to me, *probably* similar to his in at least some respects, and to those of many, many people.

And then that voice!

You hear that long song and it goes into your brain along with all the other ones of his, and then he invokes all those other artists and it's almost like he's calling a meeting of some kind, gathering some kind of quorum to set against the recurring fact of the murder, life and music against death and cutthroat business, like Pynchon in V. with the inanimate objects arrayed against Benny Profane. But it's not a Manichaean opposition, rather a recognition of the facts, but still there is this music, these movies, these good people, even in a song about a murder that was undeniably foul.





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