Carrier pigeons / Was: Re: NP: Re: more new Dylan

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Oh, this should have been "I know that Dylan's lyrics often are not to 
be taken literally" or something similar.

No, it is not great poetry.

I know Remnick's essay and recommend it highly. Rereading it, I was 
reminded of Remnick's Springsteen piece. And look what I found there:

"Early this year, Springsteen was leading rehearsals for a world tour at 
Fort Monmouth, an Army base that was shut down last year; it had been an 
outpost since the First World War of military communications and 
intelligence, and once employed Julius Rosenberg and thousands of 
militarized carrier pigeons."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/30/we-are-alive



Am 23.04.2020 um 22:03 schrieb ish mailian:
> Not sure what's inappropriate.
> It's not great poetry, that's for sure.
> 
> Here's a cool piece on Cohen you may enjoy.
> 
> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker
> 
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:43 PM Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>
>> I can quote large portions of Dylan's lyrics from the Sixties and early
>> Seventies by heart. I am familiar with the distinction between the
>> narrator, the implied author and the author. I do not think that irony
>> is something like goldy or bronzy and that Dylan's lyrics often are not
>> to be taken literally. I know Whitman's "Song of Myself" to which the
>> song title "I Contain Multitudes" refers. I know that Dylan has Jewish
>> roots.
>>
>> Still, this --
>>
>> "I’m just like Anne Frank, like Indiana Jones
>> And them British bad boys, the Rolling Stones
>> I go right to the edge, I go right to the end
>> I go right where all things lost are made good again"
>>
>> -- seems inappropriate to me. Can someone explain?
>>
>>
>> Am 20.04.2020 um 19:10 schrieb ish mailian:
>>>    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/17/anne-frank-indiana-jones-bob-dylan-new-song-contain-multitudes
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